Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this new kind of journalistic portraiture many conventional precepts went out the window...
Last week, this whole painfully erected concept of fashion was tumbling down so fast that whole generations of window dummies were beginning to look selfconscious. The fashion world was engaged in a furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried...
Fernandes' wrinkled parchment skin, his few wisps of grey hair, his stooped walk, belie his energy and drive. When he stands against a window in his second-floor office in Rio's ornate Itamarati Palace, it seems almost possible to see through his fragile frame. Yet Fernandes tackles a diplomatic fight with all the enthusiasm of a young attache...
...Stop a Bus. In Havana, Maria Ramirez Artiles stood impatiently in the rain waiting for a bus, furiously watched two flit right by. The third bus stopped-after a window was smashed and a passenger beaned by indignant Maria's well-aimed rock...
Prominently displayed in the gallery window were three rubber female breasts, mounted on velvet. Any knowledgeable Parisian recognized the signs immediately: the Surrealists were back. Up the 21 steps-which 1,500 curious Parisians climbed on the opening day-was Surrealism's first international show since...