Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mallarme wrote poems to her. Verlaine read her his verse and wept. Toulouse Lautrec painted her picture, then tickled the soles of her feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There is nothing left but to copy it." Renoir painted seven portraits of her, often pleaded that she open her dress more. "Lower, lower," he begged. "Why, in heaven's name...
Living proof that opera stars need not run to suet, Soprano Marguerite Piazza struck a pretty poolside pose outside her hotel in Las Vegas, where she is busy singing in a nightclub for better-than-opera...
...1920s. the new century seemed to be talking (and worrying) more about sex than previous ages. "Frankness" became a respectable pose for cocktail parties, parent-teachers' meetings and literature. The novelists-Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, and later Erskine Caldwell and Faulkner-were blatantly detailed, and behind them stood the anthropologists and psychoanalysts with their case histories. But the generation still had no Kinsey. It was left to him to clothe the subject in the sober, convincing, guaranteed-to-be-scientific garb of statistics...
...sunburned face worn but happy, looked older than his 48 years. Noel said that after his camera arrived in the prison camp, the Communists put him under 24-hour guard, shuttled him from camp to camp to take photographs. Added Noel: "At first, lots of the boys refused [to pose]. But when a few pictures came back in the mail from their home-town papers, they realized I was playing it straight ... I think the pictures did a lot more good than they ever could have done harm...
...Village drinking party. When one of them, a girl named Gloria, turns into a physical exhibitionist by doffing all her clothes, good old George, the steadiest character in the room, saves what is left of decorum by making a circus-style departure that shakes even Gloria out of her pose...