Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Groundbreaking ceremonies, which had been scheduled for May 29, 1974, the 57th anniversary of the late President's birth, consequently will have to be pushed back several months...
...uneven length. A native of Newark, Burrows attended the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, then took a job decorating department store windows. Switching to Manhattan's avant-garde O Boutique, he began designing and was soon hired as house stylist for Henri Bendel, an exclusive store on 57th Street. Burrows says his clothes "make both the wearer and the viewer aware of the body and its potential." This year that means "lots of sweaters and little skirts and cardigan jackets. They're all very clean and simple...
...room; one feels an urge to speak gently to the thing and soothe its defeat. By contrast, Oldenburg's Heroic Sculpture in the Form of a Bent Type writer Eraser, 1970, which was com missioned - and then rejected - for an office plaza on Manhattan's 57th Street, is a veritable parody of the hero-figure - all attention and verticality, the hairs on its brush metamorphosed into ropes of braided steel cable...
...Metropolitan Opera is first and foremost a singers' house, or what the managers on 57th Street like to call a bella voce theater. Its basic operating premise is that what counts is glorious singing. The only trouble is that no amount of fine vocalizing will make an opera like Otello or Wozzeck work without a steady, compelling baton on the podium. Yet it is difficult to get, let alone keep, good conductors in a house where singing stars have virtual veto power over their maestros. As a result, good conducting has been almost as elusive...
...between his 56th and 57th tour victories had many of Arnie's Army worried that their hero, at 41, might be over the hill. Many observers felt that golf's most exciting pro had become too fat financially, too comfortable for the rugged grind of the tour. Palmer may have shared some of their concern: since New Year's he has not had a cigarette or a drink. The quiet life and concentration on his game have obviously paid off. "I haven't felt this good in 20 years," he crowed after the tournament...