Word: veils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painting as full of style and chic as an egg is of albumin. But is the kind of sensibility in its design-the springy black silhouette of blouse and tunic relieved by one dash of white, the brisk notation of the face smeared and flecked by the black lace veil, the emphatic circumflex of the painted fan behind the girl's head-essentially different from that of Degas, Cassatt's mentor? Stylishness does not go by gender; perhaps it never did. Cecilia Beaux's Sita and Sarita (1921) looks "feminine" when you know that...
...Olga Korbut tried on a wedding gown in a St. Louis suburb. The darling of the 1972 Olympics, who is on an eleven-city U.S. tour with the U.S.S.R. National Gymnastics Team, pulled out three crisp $100 bills in J.C. Penney's to buy the gown and matching veil (total: $225). Olga, 21, plans to be married back home next year. Who is the lucky guy? "Just an ordinary boy," shrugs Korbut. No honeymoon is planned. Says the bride, with no hint of a blush: "If you get all your kicks in one month, what else is left...
...Editor explains that the work is arranged thematically and integrated logically so as to provide the unity of a book-length treatise. Maybe it is that prefatory buildup which makes the 12 essays contained in this issue entitled "American Civilization: New Perspectives" seem so disjointed and singularly irrelevant. The veil of pretension that Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, casts by claiming to have arrived at novel perspectives, does a great deal of the initial spoiling...
...past nine years, under a veil of semisecrecy, Ludwig has spent more than $200 million on his Amazon company, Jari Forest Products, and he plans to lay out another $300 million in the next two or three years. Jari, named for the muddy, winding Amazon tributary that runs through the Ludwig property, is engaged in transforming a vast stretch of virtually unpopulated jungle into a self-contained commercial kingdom. Already it has half a dozen airstrips serviced by Jari planes, hundreds of miles of roads well traveled by a fleet of more than 500 Jari cars and trucks...
...walls, in plenty, along with a number of revealing oddities. Who would have thought that George Catlin, that dependable journeyman who labored so hard to record the dying Indian tribes on his journeys across America in the 1840s, would produce landscape studies-a low band of earth, a luminous veil of sky-that look like Rothkos...