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...academic standards of its time, the figure of Annette on the Beach at Villerville (1910) is a botch-drawn as though made of string and plasticine, the skirt rendered in weird and only semilegible notations of white paint. Yet Vuillard caught with tender and ironic precision the way that people actually stand when they are not observed-along with the scoured blue of the Atlantic sky and the distant, promenading couples. It is like an amateur snapshot. Vuillard was, in fact, one of the first artists to use a Kodak systematically. It was his habit to set up his camera...
...wasn't the strawberry malt or the tight skirt or the high-heeled shoes or her all-American good looks. It was the bright red sweater 16-year-old Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner was wearing-and amply filling-that attracted the attention of Hollywood Editor William Wilkerson in Hollywood's Top Hat Malt Shop 35 years ago. "How would you like to be in pictures?" he asked Julia Jean. Within a year she had been transformed into Sweater Girl Lana Turner, and the lowly, utilitarian sweater had been established as a basic part of the American female...
...equality a very fair run for its money. The girl is a nice French teacher named Miss Piano, whose forte is snatching the conversational ball from a man and running with it farther and more knowledgeably than he ever could. The boy is Al Banghart, a canny, easygoing Chicago skirt chaser and lowbrow who once flunked her high school French course. Besides being fond of Miss Piano, Al believes in her career. When they marry, he quits his nowhere job in the hat factory to keep house...
...trip. But there are a few rules to follow, and here is a selection: 1) Forget deadlines; you'll never make them. 2) Girls will always get rides more easily than boys-but not in jeans; wear a skirt. 3) Never leave the operations area for a minute, because the moment you depart a ride always seems to turn up. I missed two flights that way, one direct to Los Angeles. 4) Make friends with everyone-the ground crewmen always know where a ride might be found. 5) Bring cotton or earplugs-my ears still ring from jet noises...
...dirty trenchcoats dotting the steps of Widener Library? The chocolate, peach and lime the CRIMSON warned of? Or Playboy's poll: "Cliffies are Merit Scholars who are good in bed" (thank God! the best of both worlds!). How could we know, when we packed our suitcases, packed those Villager skirt sand shoes with matching pocketbooks, packed little dresses for the teas and sweat-shirts and jeans, how could we know that we were absolutely right, and absolutely wrong, about everything...