Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainland with a crossChannel tunnel. The governments approved a recommendation made last September by an Anglo-French study group that found a railroad tunnel "technically possible and economically desirable." But still to be answered were two major questions. Should the "chunnel" (for channel tunnel) be bored through the chalk of the channel bottom, or should 23 miles of segmented tubes be laid across the intervening seabed? And how would the $448 million project be financed? Chunnel buffs talked excitedly of the first auto carrying train zipping smoothly from Folkestone to Sangatte by 1970. That seemed somewhat overoptimistic, but at least...
...Seventy newly acquired prints, including a red-chalk drawing, Prudence, by the Dutch master engraver Goltzius; Rembrandt's masterly etching, Landscape with a Man Sketching (circa 1645); a rare Goya lithograph, Men Spitting at a Fire, showing the Spaniard's early use of the medium...
...women, who set India's fashions, wear slacks by day as they whip about the city in sports cars, and are lovely by night in sheer, gold-encrusted saris. The new and old rich frequent the marble-floored Willingdon Sports Club, where vegetarian diners are discreetly noted by chalk marks on the backs of their chairs, and gather on Sundays for horse racing at the Western India Turf Club, where a sign at the entrance displays an untypical bit of Bombay intolerance. It reads: "South Africans not admitted...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. Seventy recent additions to the print collection. Choice are a red chalk drawing, Prudence, by the Dutch Master Engraver Goltzius; Rembrandt's masterly little etching, Landscape with a Man Sketching (circa 1645); and a rare Goya lithograph, Men Spitting at a Fire, showing the Spaniard's early use of the medium. Also on view is the Cubiculum, a Pompeian bedroom whose walls are slathered with paintings. Buried for 18 centuries under cinders from Mount Vesuvius, it was dug up in 1900 and only recently restored by the museum...
...chariot race. He first earned wide recognition on the West End stage as the leering General St. Pé in Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors, and on Broadway as Thomas Wolfe's father in Look Homeward, Angel. Last year, doing Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle in London, he nearly deprived the world of his future services when, during the hanging scene, he slipped off the box he was standing on and hanged himself in full view of the audience. After gurgling and turning black, he passed out. The curtain fell. He was cut down...