Word: toreadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast, the Riviera female is in the throes of full, Amazonian development. Her brightly painted toes flicker through the nimble measures of the Charleston; her wrists grow strong beneath the weight of jangling bracelets; her long thighs are shaped to glued-on toreador slacks. She carries blithely a large basket laden with spare sets of false eyelashes, spare bandannas, waterproof mascara, lipstick brushes, eyelid pencils, bobby pins, suntan oils, combs, tweezers, compacts, cigarettes, stray hairs left by the cat. Atop her head is a brimmed straw-hat pulled over a voile scarf tied babushka-style, and she turns...
...still drenched the alfalfa just off the east-west runway at Lancaster (Pa.) Municipal Airport at 5:30 one morning last week when the rangy truck driver from Porterville, Calif, set to work. Wearing only a pair of white toreador pants and a pair of suede chukka boots, Dan Lamore, 31, was gaudy enough. But his bow was the real eye stopper: a 54-in. monster made of fiber glass and maple, which required a force of 250 Ibs. to be shot at full power...
...tiny Piazza Umberto, Capri's main square. There the day excursionist mounts the steps behind the piazza-to save money, he does not take a cafe table-and watches the crowd swirling beneath: men with pink shoes and dyed blond hair, women in sequined toreador slacks or skintight shorts...
...fiber canoe. One Eskimo, who needed a new hair sight for his rifle, calmly dismantled his $100 wristwatch for a piece of the mainspring. In Inuvik, Indian youths with ducktail haircuts and jeans crouch over a pool table, while their girl friends in ribboned pony tails and candy-striped toreador pants play A Teenager in Love on the jukebox...
...American Collector Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Paul Cezanne's portrait of his wife went for $112,000; Georges Braque's cubist Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Mass., opened last year to show part of his massive (some 4,000 works valued at between $12 million to $15 million ) collection...