Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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ELVIS: That's the Way It Is: Jim Aubrey (former CBS executive, purported model for the most recent Jackie Susann novel) was having a bad year of it at MGM. Antonioni's Zabriskie Point had fizzled out. The Strawberry Statement hadn't caught on. Stanley Sweetheart hadn't even been heard from. Somewhere out there were all those youths, many of them paying more money to see Warner Brothers' version of Woodstock than they had paid to attend the actual event. So the MGM executives, never loath to jog after a trend, shoved a camera crew, armed with Metrocolor...
UNTIL the spring of 1968, Renault Robinson was considered a model policeman. After four years on the Chicago force, he had a 97% efficiency rating and had won more than 50 citations for outstanding work. Then Robinson and seven other black policemen formed the Afro-American Patrolmen's League, an organization aimed at improving police service to the black community and at getting more blacks into policymaking positions in the department. Robinson has been suspended five times since; anonymous telephone callers have repeatedly threatened his life and those of his wife and three children. He is now up before...
...personal regret" of the Austrian Foreign Ministry the picture of the royal nude even appeared last week in the Vienna Express. Not that the Queen actually posed that way for Photographer-Painter Roland Pleterskithe Elizabethan body in his painting belongs, in fact, to a model named Shin-Tan. The work, Pleterski claims, was an act of admiration. "I chose to do the Queen rather than, say, Jackie Onassis, because she is more important and so much nicer...
Some orchestration. Its offices in the National Press Building are a model of inefficiency. Phone wires, some disconnected, make Boren's desk look like a spaghetti bowl. Papers, stamps and stamp pads are everywhere. One example: "Cleared/Deputy Associate Assistant Chairman/Committee on Clearances/NATAPROBU." There are copies of Inaction Line, the organization's own very occasional publication; a clutch of bureaucrat pencilsfeaturing erasers at both endsand even copies of a society song called Let's Fingertap Together. Boren estimates that the organization has about 300 members, but admits the roster has not grown much...
...primary objection to structuralism is more profound. In Levi-Strauss's eagerness to find the universal determinants of human society Leach fears he has "over-looked the plain, matter-of-fact world we see all around us." The noble savage has become in Levi-Strauss's hands a "reduced model...