Word: archings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American." His heritage was also art. His Scottish-born grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, came to the U.S. at 22, later sculpted the famous 37-ft. statue of William Penn that stands atop Philadelphia's city hall. Father Alexander Stirling Calder sculpted the classic George Washington statue at the arch in Manhattan's Washington Square. However, the third Alexander Calder demonstrated from his childhood an adventuresomeness and ingenuity that clearly marked him as no mere follower, even of his talented forebears...
...memory, Democrat John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 39, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr., swept to an almost 2-to-1 triumph over his Republican opponent, former Governor Cecil Underwood, 54. Rockefeller, who lost the Governor's race four years ago to Arch Moore, took no chances this time: he spent $1.7 million to win last spring's primary and more than $800,000 in this campaign. Nonetheless, he was able to defuse the wealth issue by suggesting that he was too rich to steal and by putting his assets into a blind...
...while, in Nicholas Meyer's bestseller, an affectionate if not exactly orthodox salute to Conan Doyle. High spirits and some adept literary parody helped carry along a rather shaky narrative. In the screenplay, however, Meyer is at the mercy of his own dialogue, which sounds too arch, and the same structural problem that hobbled his book...
...humorous and energetic play. Eva Le Gallienne, tritely but rightly called "one of the truly great ladies of the American theater," plays Fanny Cavendish, the aged grande dame of the family and of the stage, apparently modeled after Mrs. John Drew, the famous actress and manager of Philadelphia's Arch Street Theater at the end of the last century, and grandmother of Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore. Eva Le Gallienne's performance is a masterpiece. She is the clear, ringing voice of Kaufman's satirical commentary on all things fashionable, vain or sentimental, and the vechicle for some...
...jobs at home. After independence, the state's ruler, Paramount Chief Kaiser Matanzima, will ask South Africa to give the Transkei more land to ease overcrowding (together, the nine homelands have only 13% of South Africa's land area). Pretoria is expected to refuse, on the rather arch grounds that such a request would amount to interference by a foreign state in South Africa's internal affairs...