Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophomores and two seniors helped make Bob Harrison's Harvard coaching debut a success by pacing his basketball team past Brandeis, 92-78, at the IAB Saturday...
...cause of the hazardous celebration was the overwhelming success of Scott's new spring and summer collection, which the week before drew applause from 700 international buyers and fashion writers gathered in Florence's Pitti Palace...
Beard and Sandals. For an American, such success in the Italian fashion world is unprecedented, and Scott came a long way to achieve it. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father, an itinerant photographer and traveling salesman, died when he was twelve, leaving the family destitute. Scott worked after school dressing store windows, went to Manhattan in 1940 to study art with Painters Moses and Rafael Soyer. "I wore sandals and a beard," he says. "Oh, I was one of the early hippies." He switched to designing fabrics, took off for Paris in 1947, and has been...
...been either sold or reserved for prices ranging upward from $35,000 for the smallest multiple-image portraits. For nearly 20 years, he has been renowned in inner circles as Britain's finest figurative painter; his works have hung in U.S. museums since the early 1950s. His commercial success is a telling comment on just how open-minded the general public has become, for Bacon's material is, to put it simply, sick...
...Collectors snapped his pictures up. Yet no matter what he showed, Watteau's view remained strangely aloof. A subtle veil of distance shrouds all his pictures, making them seem as much fantasy as reality. Unlike the nude nymphs of Boucher, Lancret and Fragonard, who with varying degrees of success were to echo his style, Watteau's aristocratic Co-lombines and shepherdesses remained fully clothed...