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...pictures were superb, so far as they went. Almost all of them were of Montmartre floozies in various stages of undress. A master draftsman, Pascin employed the sfumato (blurring of lines) dear to Da Vinci. His models were not so much outlined as enmeshed in delicate, shifting parentheses. Being no great shakes as a colorist, he avoided strong hues, tinted his figures with light dabs of pearly paint. No other artist, except Lautrec, ever mixed sweetness and sordidness more successfully. What kept Pascin out of Lautrec's league was that he had no bite; his paintings were pale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hot & Heavy | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Unlike the best of his earlier drawings, these are vaguer in outline, foggier in theme, harder to unravel. Like them, they feature literal and psychological nakedness. His first two books were worth the time of anyone who was willing to look at himself in psychic undress and momentarily exchange his individuality for the plight of today's mythical Everyman. Dean doesn't have "entirely different thoughts now" (see cut); he merely has more incomprehensible ones. Psychiatrists may decide that Dean is now poking around at a deeper level of the subconscious; to plain folks and old-fashioned artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Anybody Happy? | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...would be easy talk, and plenty of wine, after dinner in Q's "Q-bicle." Q scorned teetotalers (he once got through a church luncheon by spiking his lemonade with gin). Later, in his rooms, the talk would last into the night, though Q himself might begin to undress, popping in & out of his bedroom, now shoeless, now trouserless, until he was orating in his underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Period Piece | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...must undress her--then you must dress her again. It's a full-time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Remains in Amphitryon Despite Socialite's Demand | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...modern show tunes. He has Irene Rich for the female lead. He has a million lovely girls and two million sponge rubber falsies. Most important, he has two weeks in Boston. In this time he can throw away most of the story, cut the love interest, further undress his girlies, put the spectacles back on Bobby Clark, and let him run wild--barefoot...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

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