Word: posed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair. They heard Pearl Buck lecture on China at Town Hall, Columbia's Professor Clyde R. Miller lecture on propaganda at Lincoln School. To relax, they sailed in a yacht, saw Pins and Needles and a show at Radio City Music Hall, where they went backstage to pose for pictures with the Rockettes...
...once decided to paint Kiki, Queen of the Paris models, favorite of Artists Pascin, Kisling, Soutine. After meticulously arranging her pose and drapes, sitting at his easel, squinting at her, measuring her with his thumb, dabbing at his canvas so laboriously and long that Kiki was sure he had painted a good likeness, he declared his work done. Kiki ran around and looked at it. He had painted a great, bleak barn. "Perhaps," says catlike, sleek, sophisticated Kiki, "perhaps it was my farm-girl appearance...
Flags decorated the cities, parades were held, anti-French demonstrations flared. To a cheering mob of black-shirted Fascists ordered to gather before the Palazzo Venezia, Il Duce struck his usual defiant pose on the balcony, shouted: "The splendid victory of Barcelona is another chapter in the new Europe we are creating. General Franco's magnificent troops and our fearless legionnaires not only have beaten [Premier Dr. Juan] Negrin's government, but many others of our enemies are now biting the dust. Their motto was 'No pasarán,' but we did pass and I tell...
...paintings have the quality of forms remembered, this was a clearer and more solid memory. The black skirt of one girl and the orange jacket of the other were definite and strong notes in the composition. And not only were the figures classically balanced but their lackadaisical, toe-swinging pose was sharply observed and evocative...
This concern is no political pose with Frank Murphy. Ascetic, perfectionist, he really believes that, instead of becoming a Roman Catholic priest he became a social priest, ordained by his late mother, who taught him to honor Jews and Negroes as highly as other men. In his first mayoral campaign, Detroit called him "Dew and Sunshine" after a speech in which he said that was the kind of new morning Detroit needed. If the so-called Monopoly Investigation imposes upon him the duty of prosecuting any large vested interests, the latter may be sure he will do it with painful...