Word: yawned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topless suit? With a shrug and a yawn, Pucci turned gentleman and traitor, offered women wary of fads or of catching a cold, a grand way to cover up. It is a one-piece coverall outfit that fastens down the front, has to be stepped into, and is so difficult to get out of that the sun is bound to go down before it does, leaving a beachful of spectators ogling in the dark...
...from flasks. Excitement mounts. So do six policemen, onto snorting steeds. Sixteen more police get the barriers set up along 46th Street and part way across the Broadway exit. The throng fidgets: gloves drop, eyeglasses break, drunks mutter, old men complain and ask to be taken home, sophisticates yawn but stay rooted, teen-agers warm up for the squeal. Someone starts the rumors ("She's gone to Beirut, or Beverly Hills, or some place; she's not here; she's never coming; she never has been here, neither has he"). Always there are people, deposited by misfortune...
Agony in a Yawn. A hallmark of the collection is its focus on the well-painted picture with perfect brushwork. Nothing among Simon's pictures looks unfinished or sloppy. "Simon's primary consideration is esthetic quality without regard for periods," says Richard Brown, director of the Los Angeles County Museum. "And he lives with it just that way, hanging a Van Dyck alongside a Gorky in his office, a Memling alongside a Degas at home. This takes courage and taste, because it means holding the bat full length, not shortening...
...tough reality within. As Brown explains it, Simon has "a sympathy, an understanding, a desire to recognize agony in life," and Simon himself, a self-made intellectual who quit college after six weeks, considers "the facts of life and cold reality as bona fide subjects of art." The yawn of Degas' laundress conceals the agony of poverty and weary boredom...
...immediately they become despondent, wailing their favorite fado." Positive-thinking Portuguese try unsuccessfully to combat this downbeat sense of life; if such songs must be sung, a Portuguese intellectual has urged, "let us suffer en famille and avoid letting foreigners think we have invented a new kind of yawn...