Word: squirmingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's sawed-off, white-fringed Ivan Le Lorraine Albright is noted for painting old bottles, dead fish, seaweed, rot and decay with a relentlessly realistic brush. When human beings squirm into his paintings, he makes them look as if they had just been removed from a freshly opened grave. Now, at 60, Albright has painted a commissioned portrait (his first) of a woman-alive...
...necessary secrets is who pays for the lady's dress. An elegant Frenchwoman will spend hours searching for the exact shade of stocking to go with a certain dress, spend days debating the choice of a dress or a hat. At her couturier, she will sit down, stand, squirm and wiggle to test her dress for an unsightly wrinkle here, a crease there, for she knows that when she dines out, every eye that is turned in her direction will be educated and practiced...
...aria Sempre libera, he half-whispered: "She sings it right at the end of a party given by ... What's her name! Soprano. Her name is like . . . Violetta. Violetta!" Some viewers get the feeling that he knows most of the answers immediately and simply makes the audience squirm for the money he gets. But Charlie and those who know him best insist that it is actually his technique of ferreting out the answers ("You can see him making the thinking connections...
Like most males then and since, George Washington did his best to squirm out of having his picture done. It took all the prodding and blandishments of his wife Martha to make him agree to have "his likeness limned" for the first time. Giving in. Washington said: "Very well, Madam, but only if you and your children have your likenesses taken at the same time." As a result, Painter Charles Willson Peale was summoned from Annapolis in May 1772 to paint the hero of the French and Indian War, his wife and stepchildren. Peale's portrait...
Listeners' complaints about radio's rash of commercial spots are no longer news, but last week the squirm turned and the howl came from a longtime sponsor. Writing "as an advertiser who has been spending over $1,000,000 annually in radio" to plug his pain-relief tablets, Dol-cin Corp.'s Board Chairman Victor van der Linde reported to MBS that he had cut his appropriation for radio spots to a piddling $100,000. Reason: the "sheer multiplicity" of plugs, including many for competing products within a few minutes of each other, proves that stations...