Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faith. The talent was virtually parthenogenetic, since there was no theatrical tradition on either side of his family. His father was a piano salesman who eked out a precarious living. His mother played the piano passably, and Coward acknowledged that he was linked to her with "an umbilical cord of piano wire." By the time Noël donned his first childish sailor suit, Mrs. Coward had discovered her vocation: stage mother. The average mother is content to believe that her son is bright; the stage mother has a fanatical conviction that her son is a genius. With no discernible...
...over the Rockies on a test flight of the President's gleaming new Air Force One (Boeing 707-VC-137, over $10 million). The plane soon will stand ready with its 16 private phone lines to sweep Nixon off on new adventures, while maintaining a flawless electronic umbilical cord to the Oval Office...
...fans who were watching the Dolphin game at the Miami Playboy Club (which has a space-age antenna) were interrupted by a police raid that closed the club for not having a license to operate before 5 p.m. on Sundays. Undaunted, diehard "Dol-fans" found a long extension cord and hauled a TV set outside, where they sat under a spreading sea grape tree, munching Bunny Burgers and watching the game while the traffic whizzed by on Biscayne Boulevard. "I almost went out of my mind when the Dolphins got behind 14-13," said Bunny Mother Madeleine Kirkland...
...most ridiculous structure I ever made, and that is why it is really good. It has a kind of depth of soul of absurdity." The form of her later pieces-ragged sheets of latex, irregular fiber-glass cylinders strewn at random on the floor, tangled webs of rubbery cord hanging from the ceiling like a three-dimensional version of Pollock drips-is partly an effort to give sculpture the fluidity of abstract-expressionist painting and partly a direct celebration of incongruity. Decoration, she believed, was "the only art sin." It was not a peccadillo she ever committed: ugly, difficult...
...later embroiderers could and did achieve magnificent results-sometimes lighthearted and almost naive, as in the wool stitching of flowers, fruits and leaves on a white linen 18th century French dalmatic (or tunic); more often, of laboriously achieved splendor: the peacock displaying the green silk and gold-and-silver cord eyes and rays of his tail on a 16th century French chasuble, or the coiling festoons of gold grapes with silk chenille leaves that some anonymous craftworker applied to a 19th century Italian vestment...