Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audiences at Buffalo's Philharmonic Orchestra concerts there was one notable lack: young married couples. Most of them, Buffalo's orchestra manager Robert Maclntyre found out, wouldn't risk buying season tickets because they couldn't be sure of getting sitters for their kids. Last week, after conferring with two Buffalo sitter services, Maclntyre announced his solution: for the coming season, the Buffalo Philharmonic would guarantee to provide sitters (at 55? an hour) for season-ticket holders. The response, said Maclntyre, was already "very enthusiastic...
Since May 1, Miss Henderson has been in Los Angeles looking for a job, any job . . . Would TIME's Los Angeles staff be interested in a baby-sitter who can teach their children Greek...
John had gone ahead with the job, on the principle that "the portrait painter should allow no moral bias to affect his attitude to the sitter. The exploration of character should be left, with confidence, to the eye alone. Heaven knows what it may discover!" In Fuller, John's glaring eye discovered a well-fed man of conscience-dignified, amiable, and perhaps not particularly intelligent...
Occasional Grunts. Being painted by John can be a little unnerving. For a while, he impales his sitter firmly with piercing blue eyes, grunting occasionally and barely touching the canvas. As the idea of the painting takes shape in his mind, his mood lightens and he may even begin to chat as he slashes away at the canvas. But if things go too swiftly and too well, he worries ("I'm nothing but a bloody, glib-"), and embarks on an endless and exhausting series of changes which may well ruin the picture...
Sitting Pretty. Clifton Webb is waspishly amusing as the world's most versatile baby-sitter (TIME, March...