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James Galanos
GALANOS, James American designer Born:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 20 September 1924. Education:Studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion, New York, 1942-43. Career:General assistant, Hattie Carnegie, New York, 1944-45; sketch artist for Jean Louis, Columbia... Read more |
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Norman Norell
NORELL, Norman American designer Born: Norman David Levinson in Noblesville, Indiana, 20 April 1900. Education: Studied illustration at Parsons School of Design, New York, 1919; fashion design at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 1920-22. Career: Costume designer, Paramount Pictures, Long... Read more |
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Elizabeth Hawes
HAWES, Elizabeth American designer Born: Ridgewood, New Jersey, 16 December 1903. Education: Studied at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1921-25. Family: Married Ralph Jester in 1930 (divorced, 1934); married Joseph Losey in 1937 (divorced, 1944), son: Gavrik Losey. Career: Worked in... Read more |
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Sonia Delaunay-Terk , 1885-1979, Russian painter and designer; wife of Robert Delaunay. Raised in St. Petersburg, she moved to Paris in 1905. With her husband, she developed orphism , a movement that strove for the harmonious mixture of colors. After World War I, her interest shifted to fashion... Read more |
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George William Curtis
George William Curtis American writer, orator, and, especially, civil service reformer, George William Curtis (1824-1892) was a patrician whose ideals and causes are blurred in historical retrospect by a personal elitism that bordered on priggishness and was out of step even in his own time.... Read more |
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Charles James
JAMES, Charles American designer Born: Camberley, England, of Anglo-American parentage, 18 July 1906. Education: Self-taught in design. Family: Married Nancy Lee Gregory in 1954 (separated, 1961); children: Charles, Louise. Career: Moved to U.S., established as Charles Boucheron, milliner,... Read more |
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Incompleteness
INCOMPLETENESS In psychoanalysis, the state of "incompleteness" does not connote an imperfect or unfinished state, but rather implies openness and retrospective reexamination. The notion of incompleteness in the work of Sigmund Freud presupposes two possibles and one constraint: the... Read more |
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Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly Singer, songwriter For the Record… Selected discography Sources Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is a star in his own country; in 1997 his retrospective album Songs from the South: Paul Kelly Read more |
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William Bayle Bernard
Bernard, William Bayle (1807–75), dramatist who helped popularize the stage type of the eccentric rural American. Among the 100 successful plays that he wrote were The Dumb Belle (1831); The Kentuckian; or, A Trip to New York (1833), a revision of Paulding's Lion of the West; His Last Legs... Read more |
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Rocky Mountain School
Rocky Mountain School. Term applied retrospectively to 19th-century American artists who painted large pictures of the Rocky Mountains in a reverential spirit similar to that adopted by the Hudson River School. The German-born Albert Bierstadt and the English-born Thomas Moran (1837–1926)... Read more |
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