Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ornate, marble-floored Chelsea Hotel on Manhattan's West 23rd Street, with its famous wrought-iron balconies and traditionally tolerant management, has been a hip haven for writers, artists and musicians since it opened its doors in 1884. The antics and accomplishments of its guests-celebrated, obscure or hovering somewhere between -have become a part of New York City's artistic lore, and so has the eleven-story Chelsea itself. Its fading elegance was saved from destruction when it was designated an official city landmark...
...self-educating fellow. When he left home for London at 21, he had mastered shorthand, made a start on French and begun reading any "masterpiece" whose existence he had discovered. He clerked in London for several years, gradually making his way into the bourgeois musicale-and-reading set in Chelsea. His new friends had to coax him to try writing...
...Arts. Lichtenstein's goal was to revive the Academy as a center for all the arts. In 1968 he persuaded Manhattan's Chelsea Theater Center to be the resident repertory company in the Academy's small (250 seats) fourth-floor theater (the facilities also include a 2,200-seat opera house, a 1,200-seat music hall and a 125-ft.-long grand ballroom). A year later, the Chelsea company's production of LeRoi Jones' Slaveship was so successful that it moved to off-Broadway after its three-week Brooklyn run. The same thing happened...
...where he has been able to offer more venturesome seasons than anything available on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge. This year, for example, he has already put on Robert Wilson's twelve-hour epic The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31) and the Chelsea Theater Center's sparkling revival of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. This week Lichtenstein unveils his greatest coup yet: a three-month season by three top British repertory companies. Playgoers will be able to see the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Young Vic and the Actors Company hi productions ranging...
...delegation from the Protestant paramilitary Ulster Defense Association appeared, ominously clad in dark glasses and combat uniforms, Whitelaw casually offered them afternoon tea. He scandalized Protestants by flying members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army to a secret meeting at a borrowed house in London's fashionable Chelsea district. Observes the Alliance Party's Bob Cooper: "Whitelaw had the ability to search through an argument with a microscope, find a tiny germ of agreement and enlarge...