Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's publicity-wise Museum of Modern Art was staging a show last week that paired ancient distortions with modern distortions-and implied that both were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask beside it, made...
...fear is fear itself" and ending in 1945 with General Douglas MacArthur's acceptance of the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri, the album preserves historic high spots of the years between. Here is Britain's Edward VIII confessing that Wallis Simpson of Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers...
...last week a woman was found unconscious in a hotel room, with an empty box of sleeping pills beside her. She was pronounced "apparently dead" by an ambulance attendant. After the attendant had gone, a policeman noticed perspiration on the "dead" woman's brow, gave her artificial respiration and kept her alive. At week's end her condition was "fair and improved." All 13 of New York City's municipal hospitals decided to send interns, rather than attendants, on ambulance calls...
...Faced Woman. In Paris, Schiaparelli showed a new cocktail hat that would make even the lightest drinker see double. One side is a profile of the wearer (see cut), with a glittering brooch to simulate the eye, and a pendant "earring." Price, including jewelry...
...breezy English that made the dons wince ("Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this. 'You gods,' she exclaimed, 'ought to be ashamed of yourselves' "), then added insult to injury by claiming that the "Homer" of the Odyssey was the pseudonym of an unknown Sicilian woman...