Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of Fordham University, where Budenz teaches economics. Senator Chavez, said Father McGinley, had been guilty of slander, hypocrisy, cowardliness and "personal vilification . . . even lower than that reached in the columns of the Daily Worker." Budenz had Fordham's "full confidence . . . The Senator had the effrontery, moreover, to pose as a Catholic while publicly enacting this vicious offense against Christian charity." Replied Chavez: "I'll depend on my Creator's judgment on that...
...Posing. Hollow-eyed and weary from weeks of bickering, the U.A.W. and Chrysler negotiators pointedly avoided the amenities which usually accompany the end of a labor-management battle. They held separate press conferences to announce the outcome. When photographers pressed Walter Reuther and his aides to pose with Chrysler officials, he angrily dismissed them: "The attitude of the corporation . . . has sunk to a new low. We would not dignify the company by posing with them...
...Bernardino, Calif., Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 81, took a now-familiar pose (see cut) which helps keep him in trim. Then he hurried east to appear in NBC's TV show called Life Begins At 80, where he said he might stand on his head again ("It's good for the digestion") or else do a fast Russian kazachek ("It keeps my knees supple...
Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 42, who started out as a Chicago nightclub dancer even before the days of the Charleston, struck a pose for what she figured might be her 8,000th piece of cheesecake art. It had long since become a routine with her, she explained: "I just pull in my tummy, throw out my chest...
...Port Lligat Madonna (see cut) was more traditional than appeared at first glance. The face of the Virgin looked like that of Dali's businesslike wife Gala, but he had given her a Raphaelesque pose, fixed her in a harshly geometrical composition and surrounded her with a Renaissance vocabulary of symbolic images. For example, the egg suspended from the scallop shell over her head was taken from a 15th Century Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The shell symbolized baptism, the egg, Resurrection...