Word: poses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve years she completed 58 panels, crowded with 158 clearly recognizable residents of the Chatham vicinity. "I needed each one to pose for an hour," she says. "I paint very quickly. I would do the face and hands and let them go. They were all very willing and helpful, and many told their life stories while they were posing. I always offered them a modeling fee of a dollar, but not many took...
...shores of Lake Annecy in the French Upper Savoy near Switzerland. With her was a bearded painter from Paris named Paul Chabas. At 8:30 a.m. she would slip out of her clothes and step into the chill water. The first time, she drew her body into an instinctive pose of protection against the cold. "Don't move!" cried the enchanted painter...
...states that dare to accuse France of colonialism," he asked, "is there not a Frenchman proud to answer, in which country among you is there less imperialism, less racism, less enslavement than in ours? It is not to the French, but to civilized public opinion that I pose this simple question: if a number of your compatriots were established anywhere for a long time, would you be so cowardly as to abandon them? Do not count on us to do that. Do not count on us to sacrifice the other side of the Mediterranean as if it were...
...desire for abortion is strongest, they agreed, in the first three months. After that, when the fetus "quickens," said Psychiatrist John D.W. Pearce, the desire to be rid of the baby usually subsides. The G.P., he suggested, can often coax a woman through those first three months. Suicide threats pose a knottier problem. They cannot be ignored. Yet often the woman who voices them most vociferously is using them to lash out at those around her and is not likely to carry them out. The challenge to the psychiatrist is to judge when the threats are a reliable warning signal...
...something besides musical comedy. He brings a welcome restrained maturity to the role, and we are spared the moustache-twirling, eyeball-rolling villain. Instead of black garb with cape, how refreshing to see Iago in a series of brown costumes! Although he occasionally indulges in too studied a pose, he handles his lines with nuanced variety, often spitting them out rapidly in keeping with Iago's lightning-quick intellect. But more than that, we sense the Machiavellianism where it belongs--inside Iago's mind--even when he is just lurking silently on the sidelines. It would be easier to externalize...