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...sallow skin. We don't sell them powder puffs, of course. We sell a special soap cream with sea salt grains. One night, there was a knock on my door. It was a man who said, 'My wife and I have separated. I used to use her pore cleanser. Now my skin is breaking out again...
...Rough, appeared in 1905. They were so compelling that in 1908 a magazine sent him to Pittsburgh steel mills and West Virginia coal pits to capture the look of common laborers, immigrants like himself. He did it with the skill of Renaissance masters: character surges from every pore of sweat-stained faces, submerged in subtle eddies of pencil and charcoal. In 1909 Stella returned to Italy, where he was born, and soon met the bellicose futurists. He absorbed their lessons of the violent involvement of forms and devotion to machine-made objects. He came back...
California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown is a most amiable fellow. But he can weep from every pore when things begin to go wrong-and so far in his state's 1963 legislative year, very little has gone right...
...Harvard map collection, one of the largest in the country, numbers some 250,000 pieces, but don't expect to find the one you're looking for. Not that the sweet ladies who run the Winsor Map Room don't do their best for you. They pore over the old handwritten catalogue books and sort through the forests of wall maps, drawers crammed with charts, and stacks of old and valuable atlases. But to little avail. Everything, it seems, is out of place; nothing has been scientifically catalogued...
Georges Wildenstein, known to his 25-man staff as "M. Georges/' does much of his own sleuthing. Nothing delights him more than to work in his office after closing hours and pore over what has become one of the largest collections of auction catalogues in the world. Occasionally, Wildenstein's may have an item, say, a quick sketch by Mary Cassatt, for as little as $100; from there the prices soar up to six figures. As an exhibition hall, the gallery has led a double life. On its fifth floor it has put on an average of five...