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...that they seemed ready to speak. Unlike the rococo court sculptors who used the female figure as cool erotic decoration, the neoclassical Houdon used the solid curves of woman to convey sensible warmth. His Shivering Girl and an even more naked Diana were denied admission to the Paris Salon in 1785. Said a critic: "She was too beautiful and too nude to be exposed in public." In short, Houdon was too faithful and true to life...
...regularly takes excursions far afield. Sometimes she drafts axioms that are applicable to the opposite sex: "No nice men are good at getting taxis." "If your wife looks like a sow's ear, try dipping into the silken purse." She excoriates local hairdressers: "I left the salon at 7:15, by 8 it was slipping, by 9 it was down, and it was not even that sort of evening...
...became the first head of a Rothschild house ever to marry a Christian, had to resign the presidency of France's Jewish Community in the ensuing scandale.) The walls of their house are lined with paintings by Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Ingres and Boucher, some displayed in a strawberry-red salon that gives a visitor the impression of being inside a magnum of Chateau Lafite...
...President Kennedy got to her was half a block away-he was guest of honor at a reception given by Ireland's Prime Minister Sean Lemass at the Mayflower Hotel while she was getting a permanent and having her nails polished (pearly pink) at a nearby Elizabeth Arden salon. "I know that this visit is unofficial," she complained, "and did not expect a red carpet. But there are 100 ways in which the Government could have shown me friendliness...
...name and informs her that she will be sent an invitation to view the collection - a stall that gives the office staff a chance to check her social background and financial status. When she arrives for her appointed showing, there are seldom more than two other customers in the salon...