Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business, count the costs before you act. The moon now in Capricorn suggests keeping practical values in mind. Tomorrow is rather too energetic for comfort, but that may be because everybody is on the move...
Chester Alan Arthur decided to modernize the White House, had 24 wagonloads of furnishings carted away; lost in the housecleaning, along with much junk, were priceless antiques dating back to Monroe. Arthur called in Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate in the current rage, the florid art nouveau. Among Tiffany's contributions was a huge opalescent glass screen in the entrance hall. After Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration, he issued a brusque order to "break in small pieces that Tiffany screen." T.R.'s special contribution to the White House decor was an extensive remodeling in the restrained neoclassical style...
...Sleep with It. Armed with telephone lines reaching out to its army of loudspeakers, Muzak plays its melodies from inside locked rooms. Once a day, the Muzak man enters to change the tapes, and it is a comfort to know that the machines are linked so that even in the event of total catastrophe, they could continue playing untended...
...cold comfort to Westerners who are waging the gold war, but the Communist world has its balance-of-payments problems too. The East enjoys a small surplus in the $9 billion-a-year worth of East-West trade. But it needs much more to buy what it wants. So Russia and its satellites are up to new tricks and refurbishing old ways to earn hard Western currencies...
Barbara McNair and Howard Keel receive the support of an excellent cast. Bernice Massi plays the part of Comfort O'Connor, a tempestuous tornado from Tulsa, with show-stopping vitality. Her sizzling rendition of "Be My Host" was one of No Strings best songs. Beti Seay, a Playboy Bunny type, exudes sex as a French pastry named Jeannette Valmy...