Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philadelphia's three-year-old Downtown Tennis Club costs $1,000 to join and $360 a year in dues, but the onetime icehouse provides players with a processed cork court (similar to grass, but a good bit slower and more springy), spectators with a 50-ft.-long, glass-enclosed lounge, and both with the prestige of a former Davis Cup star, Vic Seixas, for vice president. Boston's clubs, all private, afford all manner of excellent courts, ranging from the green composition (at the Brookline Country Club) to cork (Longwood) to clay (Dedham Country and Polo Club...
...exactitude of casting, appears in a $39.98 dress covered with glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house. She also works for Aqua Velva. Joseph Cotten discusses the miracle of Bufferin, and so does Arlene Francis, for which each was paid $50,000. Imogene Coca appears for Armstrong Cork. Louis Jourdan, surprisingly, appears for Prell Shampoo. The Lustre-Creme seraglio has included Jill St. John, Juliet Prowse, Jeanne Crain, Jane Powell, Sandra Dee and Stella Stevens...
...this comes off well," he continued, "people might be willing to try it again. Despite the troubles. We've had trouble getting in time with the orchestra. The orchestra sits on the same level as the audience, so all you can hear is the orchestra. And this room has cork walls and is lined with tapestries; it's dead. But the show should be well received. We've got lots of opera fans around here who aren't fastidious enough musicians to be put off by this performance...
Withering Sirocco. In the city of Cork at the turn of the century, the O'Faolains were "shabby genteels at the lowest possible social level, always living on the edge of false shames and stupid affectations." O'Faolain's father was a police constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary; his mother was a farm girl, a deeply pious woman whose "religious melancholy withered everything it touched, like a sirocco." The ambition of both of them was to see their three sons reach "the highest state in life that anyone could achieve"-that of a Gentleman...
...writer's instinct was first honed at the stage door of the Cork Opera House, where every Sunday afternoon he witnessed "the arrival of forests, waterfalls, mountains, white douds, paneled halls, cannons and candelabras." Out of them he fashioned "highly emotional images of the Admirable Life," undisturbed by the fact that the stagehands who handled the props might be "Lazy Casey or Georgie Cantwell, who might, tomorrow morning, be holding up the street corner by the quay waiting for the pub to open...