Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Bernard Shaw, 92, entertained British Actress Frances Rowe. "I feel like a bouncing baby boy," cackled the playwright, and illustrated what he meant when a photographer tried to pose them together. His coaching to the actress: "Give me the glad eye, Fanny...
Grandma Moses (TIME, Sept. 6), chipper as ever on her 88th birthday, cut a cake decorated with scenes inspired by Grandma Moses' paintings. With a helping hand from Admirer Norman Rockwell, who also paints, after his fashion, she struck a pose that even her most critical dealer would accept as an authentic American primitive...
...have a report* on the average TIME-reading woman (some of whom are displayed on this page via the snapshots they sent us) to pose against the average TIME-reading man I discussed here a few issues ago (TIME...
Second Lieut. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard, blockbusting "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, was busy concentrating on his profession. Learning to fly jet fighters at Williams Field, Ariz., he tried on a crash helmet, just for a moment struck a pose reminiscent of old times...
...director, Griffith hit the picture business like a tornado. Before he walked on the set, motion pictures had been, in actuality, static. At a respectful distance, the camera snapped a series of whole scenes, clustered in the groupings of the stage play. Griffith broke up the pose. He rammed his camera into the middle of the action. He took closeups, crosscuts, angle shots and dissolves. His camera was alive, picking off shots; then he built the shots into sequences, the sequences into tense, swift narrative. For the first time the movies had a man who realized that while a theater...