Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cardigan sweater endures. It was the symbol of his first days of power. That rather austere garment, which he wore both for warmth and to show the American people he was one of them, has been upgraded to a fuller and more stylish model with a collar. It is neatly folded on these scorching days on a table along the wall of the Oval Office. That office remains fundamentally intact as he established it when he came to power, but it is now enriched with the acquisitions of his years in office?a vase from Sadat, a glass screen from...
...even a movie review, and you are in the presence of something immutable-a work of art or craft that has achieved its definitive form. In theory, film should be the same: an art machine as permanent as bronze replicas of a Degas dancer, as popular as the Model T Ford. In fact, film has become a most pliable plastic art. A wily producer, a finicky censor, even a TV executive can alter or destroy the film's shape, texture and meaning. Now the directors are playing at cinema surgery: Steven Spielberg has just issued a "special edition...
...manners, A Cup of Tea, 1880, are of memorable quality. But, in general, the level wobbles. The fault is not in the selection: Art Historian William Gerdts, who organized the show (first seen last winter in Seattle), is a ranking authority on his subject, and his catalogue is a model of precise explanation...
Krotkov's book even demeans one of the most celebrated love stories of modern literary history. Olga Ivinskaya, Pasternak's model for Lara in Doctor Zhivago, had been the poet's companion and secretary for 14 years. Now 68 years old and living in Moscow, Ivinskaya has survived two terms in concentration camps for her association with the poet...
...years, Cambridge was called a model of integration. Last January, a Black student stabbed a white senior to death at the high school, two blocks from the Yard, closing classes for a week and shocking many in the city into action. Desegregation plans, man-dated by the state, had been in the works for years, but the killing seemed to give them new impetus. But the proposals, which will involve busing hundreds of students in an attempt to racially balance predominantly white schools in some parts of the city, remained politically controversial. The school committee punted the case last spring...