Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...says upstart Johnny, as Manhattan's model wars rage...
...pulchritude wars began in earnest three years ago, when the longtime dominance of Ford Models, Inc., was challenged by an interloper from Paris. The parvenu, John Casablancas, had owned the biggest model agency in Paris and for years enjoyed an uneasy working relationship with "Godmother" Eileen Ford, trading les girls between continents as occasion and opportunity demanded. Then, in 1977, despite an unwritten agreement that he would not set up shop in the U.S., Casablancas descended on Manhattan. He promptly aggravated the assault by raiding some of Ford's most toothsome stars-10s or near 10s all-as well...
Hell hath no fury like a woman broker scorned. Eileen sent Bibles to the defectors with passages about Judas marked in red. More significantly, Eileen, 58, and her partner-husband Jerry, 55, filed a $7.5 million suit against Casablancas' Elite Model Management Corp. and his four Parisian partners for "violation of fiduciary trust." The second largest agency in the U.S., Wilhelmina Models Inc., sued Casablancas for $4 million. While the suits have yet to come to trial-and quite possibly never will-the epithets and the raids and the counterraids have piled up with the intensity of Hawaiian breakers...
...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...