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...Florenz Ziegfeld, whose sumptuous follies--fast-paced revues with comics, singers and chorines--became the gold standard of naughty, but not quite vulgar, spectacle: shows where young women might change clothes behind translucent screens while a winking crooner sang I'd Like to See More of You. By the '20s, the culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George S. Kaufman and George Gershwin. Times Square became not just urban but urbane...
...chaise longue, a relative of the daybed, is an extended chair intended to encourage recline and repose. The exhibit features nine chairs from the post-World War I period, seven of which are originals from the 20s and 30s. Two of the exhibition’s chairs are contemporary reproductions, made to the architects’ specifications, and perfect for exhibit-goers ready to take a break and a seat...
...know that college could be in my future, that the means would be available. It was something she had wanted for herself, I realize now. My mother, born Ella Ramah Willis, or Mamma, as I called her, had married my father George Wofford in her early 20s. By the time I was born in 1931, she was 25 and had been a mother for two years; two more babies would follow...
...another man. Because my sexuality had emerged in solitude--and without any link to the idea of an actual relationship--it was hard later to reconnect sex to love and self-esteem. It still is. But I persevered, each relationship slowly growing longer than the last, learning in my 20s and 30s what my straight friends had found out in their teens. But even then my parents and friends never asked the question they would have asked automatically if I were straight: So, when are you going to get married? When will we be able to celebrate it and affirm...
Even if the women are young enough to have kids, many have already been there, done that. Diann Lein, 61, a retirement-home employee, met her husband Dale, now 46, when he had two toddlers; her kids were already in their 20s. "A part of me wondered if I was going to be able to handle that because my kids were grown and gone by the time I'd met him," she says. "You go, Oh, no, I don't want to do this again." She decided he was worth it, and says she has a delightful relationship with...