Word: mannequin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VICTOR TUDAN The Mannequin Shoppe Hartford, Conn...
...result is a series of thin marble cutouts, rubbed pebble-smooth, that sometimes suggest chic mannequin sil houettes, and sometimes ancient Gaulish coins. Hajdu also produces metal bas-reliefs, which he calls "orchestrations of light and shade," that bring to mind the pulsations of a Spanish dance or the interlocking vapor trails of high-flying jets. At best they reflect the inspiration he found in the art of ancient Mesopotamia, to create a world "real in facts but invented in forms...
...French model will act like a perfect gentleman. To this suppositious premise, Producer-Writer-Director Norman (Dear Ruth) Krasna devotes 102 Technicolored minutes of debate. The affirmative is passionately upheld by Olivia de Havilland, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to France, who archly masquerades as a Dior mannequin to prove her point. The negative is defended by Adolphe Menjou, who plays a U.S. Senator determined to have Paris declared off limits to G.I.s, presumably on the grounds that it is too good for them...
...France, one of playboy Prince Aly Khan's legal eagles allowed that His Highness will soon take a third wife, top Parisian Mannequin Simone Bodin, 30, renowned as Bettina in the fashion world...
...figured if I stole the old one, they could buy a new one with the insurance money." One-Way Traffic. In Nanaimo, B.C., after he was fined $10 for drunkenness when police found him carrying on a one-sided conversation with a shapely store-window mannequin, Logger Lome Curtis explained that he was not trying to pick up the girl: he merely wanted to buy a boat ticket to Vancouver...