Word: salons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirty Smock. Back in England, she induced physicians to attempt the Turkish practice of preventing smallpox by inoculation, and the ensuing controversy made her famous as the Jonas Salk of the 18th century. She also set up a salon frequented by such famous wits as Congreve, Pope, Steele, Fielding, Voltaire-and Lady Mary. Once, when somebody wondered why Prime Minister Robert Walpole had appointed a dolt as his Secretary of State, Lady Mary explained: "Oh, if I came suddenly to a great fortune and set up my coach, I should like to show it to the neighbouring village...
...market thrives on revivals, and in recent years has seen everything from 17th century mannerists to Britain's Pre-Raphaelites brought back into vogue. But one group-the 19th century French Salon painters, including such luminaries as Cabanel, Meissonier, Bonnat, Baudry and Rochegrosse-has seemed beyond redemption. Until last week when, that is, half in jest, Paris' avant-garde Galerie Breteau dragged out 20 paintings by one of the most ac claimed academicians and popular artists of his time, a man whose very name was an epithet to the impressionists: William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
First came the hemline revolution, then the permanent wave. Last week the Kremlin authorized yet another step in the transformation of the Soviet woman from proletarian heroine to bourgeois feline. Out of an old beauty salon on Moscow's Gorky Street it created the Institute of Cosmetology, which, when it opens next year, will have a staff of 300 specialists. Purpose of the institute, according to Tass: "The perfection of the human face and body...
Most women prefer, for simple economic reasons, to go to the salon. To be sure, an appointment at Mr. Kenneth's may find Mr. Kenneth himself a continent away, ministering to clients who have requested his personal services. But each of the 22 assistants he employs can cut and curl as well as the next. With any luck, a girl will get a glimpse of the real thing, even perhaps be graced by a word or two, delivered over her head, but relating to it: "Not bad," he will say to the Mr. Ralph or Mr. Daniel or Miss...
...also nice that though he might not have quite as much money as Father Henry, he spent it with more style. This was a man who handed out gold cigarette boxes as if they were match books, ordered his suits 16 at a time. The salon of the Creole was furnished with Van Goghs, Renoirs, a Gaugin and a Rouault...