Word: agelessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Veracruz to Bremerhaven aboard a German ship crowded with Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon and Latin types, Ship of Fools is an oceangoing Grand Hotel, which tells in parable form of the slothful, harmless and irresponsible people who made possible the rise of fascism. "I took for my own this ageless, almost universal image of the ship of this world on its voyage to eternity," she said. "I am a passenger on that ship...
Gibbings' new pieces have their models' clean, simple lines and gracefully swooping curves, which can be fitted easily into the modern split-level, while at the same time suggesting the ageless charm of antiquity. In the Gibbings collection is a leather-topped folding stool with four sturdy horse legs, which was copied from a mid-6th century earthen plaque in the West Berlin State Museum. Other straight-legged stools are borrowed from a frieze in the Parthenon. Copied line for line and curve for curve from the stele of Hegesco, built in 400 B.C., is a large chair...
...tribe restored to its ancestral village. He smokes incessantly, sleeps with his mosquito boots on, and has worn the same conical felt hat, begrimed with sweat and snake venom, since 1940. Peering out from its ragged brim with his satyrlike half-smile, the snake man looks rather like an ageless faun out of pagan mythology. At his death, he intends to have his body thrown to the hyenas since "one of the most stupid premises is that life is, in some peculiar way, sacred...
...ball for the benefit of Polish refugees, Princess Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia, better known as Cosmetics Queen Helena Rubinstein, was joined by her old friend and near neighbor on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Pianist Artur Rubinstein. After the ball was over, Helena, ageless but eightyish, commented on her distant cousin: "I told his wife, 'The older he gets, the better he gets.' " What did she and Rubinstein, 72 this week, talk about? "A lot of nonsense...
...prefer to accept the claims of her pressagent that Songstress Brenda Lee is barely 16 years old and that her growth pattern is entirely normal (she now stands 4 ft. 11½| in.). The difference of opinion is understandable, for Brenda peers at the world through mascaraed eyes of ageless innocence while crooning her mating songs in a voice that is part whisky, part Negroid, and all woman. The amalgam had, at last counting, put Brenda nearly up with her male counterparts-Fabian and Paul Anka-as one of the teen-age tycoons...