Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pick up lunch checks. "I was also delighted," says Morrow, "to give up the little hopping stutter-step necessary to place me on the curbside when walking down the sidewalk with a woman. But I haven't quite abandoned the habit of holding a woman's chair. What I do is place one hand on the back of the chair and then fall into a sort of abstracted trance until the woman is seated, as if I were not entirely responsible for my actions...
...problems of social kissing (a phenomenon they witness mainly on Johnny Carson) or in the protocol of inviting gay couples to a party. The Milwaukee housewife who hauls trash barrels to the curb every Monday morning is not affronted when her husband fails to pull out her chair at dinner. She settles for watching reruns of the butler Hudson on Upstairs, Downstairs and for the knowledge that wherever she goes, all day long, other Americans will be singing out pleasantly, "Have a nice...
...automatically. The notes were done by rote and said nothing. Now they may be fewer, but they mean more." Dr. Alfred Messer of Atlanta cheerfully tells a story of going to eat lunch at his hospital's dining room some months ago. "I instinctively stood up to hold the chair of a woman colleague who had carried her sandwich over to the table. She almost cracked me in the face!" Charlotte Ford insists that she still likes the old chivalry?doors opened, cigarettes lighted. "Men are still men," she says, "the tougher of the two sexes. It's nice...
...after a while it seemed equally pointless to sit all day, on a chair, in a building, with a ranger who knew little and cared less. It was the first day my legs hadn't pumped more than six miles and the fact I was using furniture in a solid structure seemed sacrilegious, a contradiction of the whole purpose behind the trek. The longer I sat, the less I liked it; rain or shine I knew I would hike out the next...
DIED. Harry Bertoia, 63, Italian-born sculptor and furniture designer; of a pulmonary hemorrhage; in Barto, Pa. Bertoia first achieved recognition in 1952 when he unveiled his now classic chair: an upholstered, diamond-shaped wire shell sus pended in a steel cradle. He was later noted for welding metal rods and plates into dandelion-like bursts and honeycombed wall screens, and for creating his "sounding sculptures," clusters of wires and bars that turned sonorous when brushed by hand or wind...