Word: sitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people piled in for a look at the picture. Few disagreed with the experts' contention that it was worth what it cost. A product of Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which he stood...
Grad parietal rules state that at least two girls must be present in a room, and the new service will provide a couple-sitter, at prevailing baby-sitter rates, for any grad student who wants to entertain a woman until the 12 midnight deadline...
...Atlanta enumerator rode 60 feet into the air on a block & tackle to get the dope from Flagpole-Sitter Odell Smith (address: Cloud No. 65), and one in Detroit obligingly returned three times to set down the facts about a housewife who refused to talk to him while her husband was at home. "I don't tell him anything," she explained. Another housewife urged the census taker to help her discover how much her husband earned. The man who set out to get the count in View Ridge, Wash, (wartime pop. 4,000) suffered a deep shock...
Jackson was ill when Healy painted him. He tried to conceal his suffering while the work was in progress, apologized for not being a better sitter. When the painting was finished Jackson examined it and remarked: "I am satisfied, sir, that you stand at the head of your profession. I feel very much obliged to you, sir", for the great labor and care that you have been pleased to bestow upon it." Nine days later the old. general died...