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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it could borrow grandeur from a vanished period. But the great achievement was not in these efforts. It was for a long-running production titled Cecil Beaton!, with sets, costumes, lighting, direction and dialogue by the author. No epitaph by friend or critic could equal the one he ad-libbed for himself when a journalist reminded him that he had not been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. True, Beaton acknowledged. Then he added the irrefutable punch line that summed up a life: "But I managed to put it there...
...typical cigarette ad aimed at women features "very long, slender models and very long, slender cigarettes," Johnston said...
...Ad hoc solutions were devised. The gloppy layers of interior paint were frozen off with a sprayed treatment of supercold liquid nitrogen. Bolts holding the statue to the pedestal, each fastened with a nut as big as a layer cake, were tightened with a 30-ton hydraulic jack. Only one radical renovation was undertaken: Liberty's torch is entirely new. The old handle had corroded badly, and the flame had been replaced in 1916 by a leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell...
...reason for the bargain price is that Fields is getting his money's worth from Jewell Floyd. She is 48, a round, silver-haired woman who operated a computer terminal for a nearby construction firm before she answered an ad for extras. By now she has worked four days, 7 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. The pay is only minimum wage, she says, standard for the local people hired as extras, "but they feed us out of this world. And I do feel like a celebrity. I'd do it again, yes, ma'am. In a heartbeat." Today...
What's this, a new ad campaign for Top Gun, the box-office smash about the Navy's hottest pilots? Not quite, although the confidently grinning fly-boy is indeed top gun of a sort. John Lehman, 43, is not only a Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time...