Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gabor struck a delicately balanced pose in imitation of another famous singer and actress: Jane Avril, favorite model of French Artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Then she left for Paris to play the part of the poster model in a new movie, Moulin Rouge, the life story of Lautrec...
When a novelist chooses religion for his theme and a priest for his hero, he faces as hard a problem as fiction can pose. His hero must be a man of faith-and if that faith is to ring true, the novelist cannot, like Homer or Hemingway, give his hero the sort of dash that enlivens the worldling in fiction. His moral lapses are less endurable than in another man; ultimately, and foreseeably, he must prove his mettle by self-denial...
Lush Cinemactress Marilyn (Clash by Night) Monroe played an indignant role in a Los Angeles courtroom as the state's star witness against two men charged with using Marilyn's name on letters hawking nude photographs of her "in every pose imaginable." Posing prettily, the onetime undraped calendar model said "no" a dozen times, thus denied any knowledge of the pornographic racket. As she explained demurely, "the pictures are of somebody else...
...proudest possessions in Dayton's public library museum has been a rare portrait of Abraham Lincoln without his beard. A small, clearly drawn painting, it was by a local artist named Charles W. Nickum, who, so the story went, got Lincoln to pose for him one day on a swing through Ohio in the late 1850s. A committee of Dayton's citizens gave Artist Nickum's widow $1,000 for it in 1928, and the museum has swellingly displayed it for the edification of Lincoln fans ever since...
Aboard the Queen Mary, bound for England and a summer of television work, Actress Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) refused to give photographers a cheesecake pose, instead favored them with a winning smile and a ladylike version of the traditional ship's-rail picture...