Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the day's fourth cup of coffee and eleventh cigarette, Molly's off to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, the Mecca of Valley Girls. If Andy Hardy's life was small town, Molly and her generation's is mall town: cruising the stores and the guys for a little post-innocent fun. Today's purchase is a portable tape player, a present for Mom. We detour to glom some sweaters, to pet the hamsters in the pet shop, to try on some beige Shiseido lipstick. Molly resists (and transcends) the Valley Girl stereotype, though she lives and speaks a variation...
...patrician sumptuousness of the city's religious and secular life. There is, for instance, one of the most extravagant objects in the history of European metalwork, the Schlusselfelder Ship, made for a local burgher in 1503 by, some historians suppose, Albrecht Durer's father. It is a huge drinking cup in the form of an armed three-masted carrack, nearly 3 ft. high, done in silver gilt, complete down to the last cannon and sheave, its decks and rigging swarming with 74 tiny sailors and passengers. In detail if not, perhaps, in sculptural grace, it out-Cellinis Cellini...
...friend's house in Newton, Massachusetts and eat lasagne and drink beer and watch the Miss America Beauty Pageant and the third game of the Stanley Cup finals...
...from the sublime to the sublime: The third game of the Stanley Cup finals...
...Stanley Cup match-up was the first real professional game I'd ever watched end-to-end (If you don't count occasional interruptions for the Miss America pageant) and maybe the most interesting thing I saw the whole game was a player from Calgary and Montreal "mixing...