Word: undresser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come-as-you-are parties are also rite. They are planned in advance by one small group who, at the appointed time, rest out their companions and drag them, in various states of undress, down to the drawing room, where cat sessions ensue...
...They Beat Me." For the Fitzgeralds, as for many of their contemporaries, the big toot was on-what Scott called "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." In New York, Scott fought with waiters, and Zelda danced on dinner tables. They went wading in public fountains and tried to undress at the Scandals. No matter how much he wrote, Fitzgerald was continually in debt. By 1924, he was living at a $36,000-a-year clip. Two years earlier, he had published The Beautiful and Damned, the story of a rich idler's moral collapse. It had the same faults...
...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...