Word: boucher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired by Boucher, and Ludwig's magnificent throne, a Beardsleyan Oriental divan backed by three haughty, blue-and-green-enameled peacocks...
Such a crafted and crafty play makes great demands on actors but Mary Moss and David Tresemer, under Bruce Boucher's fluid direction, keep the tiny bubbles of action and mood coiling through the five short scenes. Mary Moss in particular is a streaming red-haired wine of a woman and it's worth the price of admission just to see her struggle with a zipper as she fits into a black dress...
Over hundreds of square miles, central Alaska looked from the air like a gigantic paddy field. The Chena, whose flood level is pegged at 12.1 ft., on the fifth day of rain crested at 18.8 ft. at Fairbanks. The downtown shopping district was deluged. By Mayor H. A. ("Red") Boucher's count, 75% of the city's businesses took major damage. Virtually every building in the city was awash. Volunteers sandbagged St. Joseph's Hospital until patients could be evacuated. The Alaska-67 exposition, celebrating the centennial of the territory's purchase, was severely damaged...
...compare art works of Ingres and Boucher to "playmates"? That is like comparing Mickey Spillane to Boccaccio. And of the starlets you mention, not one has a tenth of the beauty or acting ability of a Garbo or a Moreau...
...Boucher had been informed that the resolution would be discussed last night, but he was not present. He will keep his membership on the Council and forfeit only the office...