Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Masonic leader also participated (Truman, past Masonic Grand Master, was baptized in the Baptist church at age 18; Bess is an Episcopalian). At Truman's request, no hymns were sung and there was no eulogy. Bess and her daughter Margaret watched the ceremony from behind a green curtain that screened them from the 242 invited mourners, all relatives or close friends of the family. At the burial site in the library courtyard-a spot Truman had selected 15 years ago-a frail but composed Bess accepted the folded flag that had covered the coffin, after a trio of traditional...
...Shaffer is a better writer by yards than, say, Christie; yet Sleuth is finally undone by the same problems as beset those musty standards, Ten Little Indians or The Mousetrap. Such works tease and divert; yet there is always a feeling of having been a little cheated after the curtain falls or the last page is turned. Their stubborn remoteness from reality, which is part of their charm, is also their undoing...
...movie begins with shots of various set designs and ends with a curtain descending briskly on a miniature stage...
...bonus in the amount of floor space now allowed them under the zoning code. So far this year, four new theaters within office buildings have opened in Manhattan's theater district-the first new legitimate theaters in the area since 1928. One, the Uris, rang up its curtain on the Via Galactica debacle. But in the same building, the 650-seat Circle in the Square already has a list of 12,000 subscribers for its first four-play season of classics...