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...husband fled to Paris to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917. She studied painting under the Cubist André Lhote and hoped to earn a living from her work, but she did more than merely get by. Her career took off as she managed to secure celeb sitters; her own beauty and dress sense helped her gain entry into the best circles, but she also worked long hours. Her style fused the severe with the alluring: her young women may have geometrically simplified arms, perfect cones for breasts and hair that seems sculpted from sheets of steel, but they also...
...advertisement offering services as a baby-sitter was the only clue to Pomey’s whereabouts...
...they're clothed, it's in the latest mode, like the sitter in Portrait of Madame M. (1930), whose dress is an up-to-the-minute bias-cut number. Lempicka's portraits aren't just fashion plates, though?she recorded her sitters' idiosyncratic personalities and features, cropping the image closely so that the figure and its costume fill the frame, sometimes leaving a small high window for a distorted view of fantasy skyscrapers right out of the 1927 German movie Metropolis...
...more reason to pull the plug on the electronic baby-sitter: according to a study by Children's Hospital in Seattle, each hour of TV watched daily by toddlers is linked to a 10% higher risk at age 7 of problems like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. How much is too much? The American Academy of Pediatrics makes it simple: no TV before...
...pencils in day shifts as a baby-sitter and nights as a Harvard Law School janitor. Workers’ rallies and presidential canvassing all go into the same book. She’s written down these and more and soon she’ll write in a new one: citizenship classes...