Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that it is fairly well known that Nan Wood Graham was the woman who posed for American Gothic [May 10], but I have always been puzzled about why the identity of the man in this famous painting should be so shrouded in anonymity. He was Dr. B. H. McKeeby, and he was a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dentist. It is a local Cedar Rapids legend-this being a case where the legend may be the truth-that Grant Wood picked Dr. McKeeby as a model while McKeeby was filling Grant's tooth...
...ranks. The poor people at Resurrection City have very little idea what their leaders are after, and they are left with a feeling of confusion and a lack of direction. Many came to Washington to escape poverty at home. "I came here because things are better," a woman from Lebanon, Miss., told me. Many expect to stay permanently. But so far, life in the plywood A-frame shelters has hardly been uplifting--materially or spiritually. It is uncomfortable and boring. People are going home. The Washington Star said that 50 had left by the fourth...
...subtly allusive. One lady collector recalls that, when her companion strolled toward one of Morris' grey Fiberglas doorshapes in a gallery, she suddenly felt compelled to call out "Stop." "I don't know why," she says, laughing nervously, "but it was almost like a man violating a woman." She has since bought a large Morris for her garden...
...dimension by some vulgar nightclub clown. By some-some black humorist! Because that's who the black humorists are-of course!-the Henny Young-mans breaking them up down there in the Fontainebleau, and with what? Stories of murder and mutilation! 'Help, help,' cries the woman running along the sand at Miami Beach, 'my son the doctor is drowning!' Ha ha ha- only it is my son the patient, lady." His family still haunts him. "Good Christ," he cries "a Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain...
...guide was a tall, thin black man with an African costume named Sweet Willy. Sweet Willy can rap pretty good, and when a woman inside one of the shelters complained "This isn't a zoo," when photographers tried to take pictures of her, Sweet Willy said to her, "How we gonna show Johnson?" That worked...