Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yousuf Karsh is a lively, bald-pated little man with a mission: to photograph the faces of the great men of his time. That became his ambition after he came to Canada from Turkish Armenia at 15 and went to work in his uncle's photographic studio in Sherbrooke, Que. Eventually Yousuf Karsh set up his own studio in Ottawa and before long his dramatic, three-dimensional portraits had made him Ottawa's top photographer. Then, on Dec. 30, 1941, Winston Churchill came to town...
Credit for the imaginative experiment must be divided equally between Montgomery (who has been nagging his studio for years to let him try it) and wealthy, conservative MGM, which did all right for itself at the 1946 box office (see above) by just sticking to big, safe production techniques and big, safe stars...
Organized in November, the Association already boasts 40 members paying the not inconsiderable dues of five dollars a year. In the finest tradition of serious art, the members do their work in a two room studio garret on the top of Sever Hall where the Association offers three-hour "life" classes once a week...
Like most of the group, Gustave Singier is a married man, spends his days painting in an ice-cold studio wearing two sweaters, two coats, a muffler and hat. He seldom sees his fellow painters. Asked what the twelve call themselves, he explained that movements don't give themselves names: like Quakers, they get names pinned on them by their detractors. He-if no one else-liked, a name he had found in reading Delacroix's Journal: "Surnaturalists...
Retooling for Steve. In the airy, book-lined studio at New City, Milton Caniff cleared away the oriental props that had served Terry. The morgue was crammed with Americana, for a change of scene: state guides, the Rivers series, hundreds of photographs of city streets and airports. Marshall Field, no comics expert, had no advice to give, but Caniff knew what the publishers and readers wanted: a strip with all the thrills of Terry and nearly all the sexiness of Lace rolled into...