Word: brac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...river barge that plies the internal waterways of France; it becomes a self-sufficient universe as Vigo focusses his attention on object after object, making every sequence almost a tactile experience. Most of the action occurs below deck in small, confined staterooms filled with the bric-a-brac that the four passengers have brought with them. Each room exudes its own atmosphere, the personal odor of its occupant...
Also smashed: countless windows and bric-a-brac, shattered by the continuous sonic boom that the plane created. One Air Force officer had predicted before the flight: "This ought to be good for an air speed of 1,300 m.p.h. and a ground speed of 13,000 broken windows...
Lady Bird Johnson now has something impressive: a twelve-room, French château-style house in Washington's Spring Valley section. Its previous owner, party-giving Perle Mesta, grandly dubbed it Les Ormes (The Elms), decorated it with all kinds of French furniture, tapestries and bric-a-brac. The Washington word was that Perle had been asking $200,000. The Johnsons paid something closer to $160,000, and Englished its name to The Elms. "Every time somebody calls it a château, I lose 50,000 votes back in Texas," sighed Lyndon...
...blame? Partly Cassel, mostly Director Philippe de Broca. As before, De Broca has cast Cassel as a sort of Don Juan in diapers. He plays the younger son in a cheery Charles Addams family that inhabits a large, sunny, 19th century cobweb littered with charming bits of bric-a-brac and squalling testimonials to the efficacy of the hero's family motto: "Fructify!" The family lives in a dream world all its own, posing for imaginary deathbed scenes of famous men. playing baroque quintets in the evening, avidly at all times hankering after news of the hero...
Showing traditional party loyalty while shifting the bric-a-brac in his office, Postmaster General Ed Day rescued the portraits of two distinguished Democratic predecessors. Franklin Roosevelt's Postmaster, James Farley, was restored to the wall of the Postmaster General's inner office after long banishment in the shadows of a reception room at the hands...