Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan milliners, after years of trying to make the American woman look like a helicopter after a crash landing, finally did it. Observers at autumn style shows came away feeling top-heavy. Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes. Most of them were as big as barrelheads. It seemed almost certain that by spring U.S. women would have neck muscles like Jim Londos...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford and Robert Ryan cross each other up in Jean Renoir's sullen thriller (TIME, June...
...last week Erich went again to a neighbor and offered her some things he had found. She got angry. She was a hungry woman herself, with mouths to feed. "Listen," she said, "I have no bread to give you. Your things are worthless. You should find better things to do than going around begging." She slammed the door. Erich went away, his treasures clutched in his hand...
...About Town), starring Maurice Chevalier. A special award went to Roberto (Open City) Rossellini's Italian Paisa (Country Town). French Gerard Philipe was honored as the year's best actor for his work in Le Diable au Corps (The Devil Inside). And Mexico's Enamorada (Woman in Love) took the prize for the year's best photography...
...eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil, shepherds met in bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...