Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season Foreign Minister, granted an interview to a Western newshen, according to Vienna's daily Die Presse, and seemed alive. Stripped of power in a 1952 intraparty fight (TIME, June 17, '52), old Hatchetwoman Pauker declined to talk politics ("I am an old woman") or pose for photographs, limited her observations to art, books and cooking...
Painters' Painter. Ironically, the basic elements of Rembrandt's painting-his superb brush stroke and bold handling of color, his insistence on psychological insight, his dramatic use of light and shadow-long kept him in eclipse. Though in his own day Velasquez thought nothing of borrowing a pose from Rembrandt's Negress Lying Down (he used it for his own Venus), Rembrandt's reputation became primarily the custody of painters in later generations. In their hands, Rembrandt's work has become one of the richest lodes in Western...
...such frankly operatic efforts as Porgy and Bess -only 20 of its 140 minutes are filled with spoken words, a percentage which compares favorably with Mozart's Magic Flute. Putting such works on records required very special abilities, e.g., coaxing people whose first impulse is to mime and pose into playing entirely for the ear, and then creating in sound the invisible stage action and mood...
...that feminine curves do not jibe with the serpentine Soviet party line. Said Irina: "We've never heard of sex appeal in Russia. It doesn't count and has nothing to do with art." Distending her ample bosom, she added: "In the Soviet Union, we do not pose in bathing costumes...
Weeks later, when Correspondent Serrell Hill man joined the Phillies on a Western swing, the big pitcher was still remembering the experience. "You ever pose for an artist?" he asked Hillman. ''Koerner had me holding still for two weeks. I came up with a sore back!" But he admitted that he and his Philly teammates finally became fascinated as his portrait emerged from the blobs of oil paint...