Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designs. Some eyes took as long as five hours to do, but they made the magazine covers, earned Pablo special beauty awards and the run of Elizabeth Arden's Fifth Avenue salon. There a covey of beauties (Virna Lisi, Anne McDonnell Ford and Stephanie Javits) flock for his touch at $20 a half-hour session...
Interesting Defect. Pablo's art requires the touch of a miniaturist, the steadiness of a demolition expert. He has both, plus an assorted palette of six watercolor shades and seven sable brushes of various sizes and shapes-shaving-brush thick for blush powder, pencil-thin for under-eyeliner. Eyes are made up as much as possible: double, even triple rows of false eyelashes ("Doesn't everybody own at least three pairs?"), and the rest a subtle blending of watercolor tones: black eyeliner, then white, light brown, dark brown (in the crease of the eyelid), light brown again, ending...
...London-born conductor with its Golden Door Award, given annually to a foreign-born citizen who has made significant contributions to U.S. cultural life. In accepting the honor, Stoky's thoughts characteristically turned to youth. "There is rising a young generation," he said, "with which I am in touch, and they're seeing things in a new way." Then by way of proof, he led his youthful American Symphony Orchestra in a Mozart serenade...
...person we knew," wrote Novelist Henry James of his friend John La Farge. In fact, La Farge convinced James that he should write rather than paint, then used his brother, Philosopher William, as the model for St. John in an uncompleted altarpiece. La Farge also succeeded in smuggling a touch of the Renaissance back to the U.S., revived the art of stained glass, and visited Tahiti with sketchbook in hand before Gauguin got there. Unlike many of his well-educated countrymen, such as his contemporary Whistler, who became expatriates, La Farge put his talents to embellishing the barren American cultural...
...touch my lips to evanescent lips...