Word: salons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operator in an expensive shop makes upwards of $100 a week) and take in better than $1 billion a year. To them each week troop some 3,750,000 U.S. women, who spend an average of more than $5 per visit. The beauty parlors (known in the trade as salons) offer everything from pedicures, manicures and facials to "body-contouring" (pummeling and steaming), supply false eyelashes, fingernails and "transformations" (false hair). Best & Co.'s store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue claims to have the biggest salon; there 60 men & women operators tend a bank of 100 dryers, beautify...
Nineteenth Century sculpture was more lifelike than lively, consisting mostly of well-proportioned heroes and heroines correctly modeled in conventional poses. Young Rodin easily licked his contemporaries at that game. His male nude Age of Bronze caused a scandal at the "Paris Salon of 1877" because the judges mistakenly supposed it must have been cast from life. No one could make the same mistake about his later, greater bronzes. Dented everywhere by Rodin's thick thumbs, they were expressions of life, rather than copies. His marbles, when made by professional stone carvers from Rodin's clay models, were...
...first big group show of the Paris season was dominated by a single painting. Bernard Lorjou's huge (12 ft. by 18 ft.) Atomic Age made everything else at the Salon des Tuileries last week look either timid or oldfashioned; it was a direct challenge to the aging moderns who have so long shaped French art. By its size, its dull coloring and its air-war theme, the picture was clearly intended to invite comparison with Picasso's famous canvas of the Spanish civil war, Guernica. Lorjou is no admirer of his elder. "Picasso is called...
...piano contest between the two great virtuosos at the Princess Cristina Belgiojoso's, that spring of 1837, had been one of the unmistakable successes of the Paris season. The cream of society had crowded the princess' salon to hear famed Franz Liszt outthunder another darling of the day, suave Sigismond Thalberg. If she could enlarge the duel to a multiple piano exhibition, the princess thought, perhaps a goodly sum could be raised for the benefit of her needy Italian compatriots in Paris. So six of the most famous pianists of the day were asked to compose variations...
...interior of the ship had been almost completely rebuilt. Passenger capacity had been cut from 2,200 to 1.513 to provide larger cabins and airy, well-lighted public rooms. Among the new features: a blossom-stuffed conservatory, a mural-lined children's dining-room, a small music salon where traveling musicians can practice. In the hold, to dine & wine the passengers on the six-day crossing, were eight tons of prime beef, 60,000 eggs, 5,000 bottles of champagne...