Word: belter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hello, Dolly!, and in Henry, Sweet Henry the show-stopping Nobody Steps on Kafritz number and a Tony nomination. "I wanted to be more than a belter," says Alice, though she was an overpowering one. But she has never been particularly pushy or pushed. "I wasn't fulfilling my parents' frustrations," she says of her optician father and housewife mother. "They aren't stage parents." Her TV and radio commercials (she has done 45 in the last 16 months) bring in enough money so that she can take college courses and wait for roles "with a little...
...furniture as in architecture, the 19th century's fanciful adaptations of traditional styles often masked new concepts in design and construction. The sinuous curves and scrolls and extravagant ornamental carving of J.H. Belter's rosewood chairs and tables were based -however remotely-on 18th century French rococo precedents. But the S-shaped Tête-à-tête chair that seats two people facing one another was a strictly Victorian innovation...