Word: candelabra
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When the crowd applauded, he peered over the electric candelabra standing on the piano (an idea adapted from a movie about Chopin) and cooed: "You overwhelm me! I got goose pimples." The feeling was clearly mutual...
...times edges Beauty beyond the point of excellence into the realm of excess. Josette Day's performance as Beauty scores the danger larking in an overdose of horror. The plot demands that the heroinc ignore self-opening doors, living statuary and arms that project through the wall to hold candelabra. Furthermore, she must recognize the pure soul of the Beast shining through a hair-matted body and lighting a vaguely feline and totally grotesque face (superb make-up, this). Well, the actress does not live who can convince me that she has really learned to live with a monster...
...like the lean, dark actor, Liberace is pudgy, his curly hair is greying, his brow is broad. And he is not the strong, silent type. At a typical performance, he sits at the grand piano on a darkened stage with a 25-piece orchestra behind him and a discreet candelabra near by. He flashes a dazzling smile at the crowd, waves and mugs, squints up into the balcony and gushes into a convenient microphone, "Ooh look, there are people way up there...
Besides the salt, High Table has slowly acquired several other gifts. Coolidge also donated a gold plate with the escutcheon of the House on it. The designer of the House--a different Coolidge--gave the candelabra, while Baliol College in Oxford contributed a silver plate...
...Chapel is siumpy furnished with seven wall candelabra, four wooden benches, and floor matting. James P. Morton '51 designed the interior decoration, which was financed by students representing all seven Houses...