Word: curtained
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...When the curtain first rises, you are plunged into a thickly tangled plot that may take you the whole first act to unravel. Basically, the main character is not really the medieval German emperor, (sigh of relief from those who hate historical plays), but a twentieth-century Italian aristocrat who suffered a fall from his horse during a mock-medieval pageant and remained convinced that he was actually Henry IV. In order to humor him, his relatives have totally recreated Henry's courts, with servants in medieval dress, oil lamps instead of electric lights, visiting abbots and monks--the works...
...FACULTY WAS treated last week to the curtain performance of an always engaging show--John Dunlop in action at a Faculty meeting. As Faculty members and observers ambled into the University Hall Faculty meeting room, they saw the former Dean seated in his usual position at the right of President Bok, trading quips with passers-by and periodically bursting into fits of laughter, always casting a canny eye about the room to reassure himself that everything in his Faculty was in order...
...said John Stewart Service, 63, as he received an ovation from 300 fellow diplomats at a luncheon of the American Foreign Service Association. The ceremony, honoring a number of old China hands, was a little like one of those "rehabilitations" that mysteriously occur when policies change behind the Iron Curtain, for Service had been dismissed from the State Department in 1951 because of "reasonable doubt" as to his loyalty. Among other things, he was guilty of predicting that the Communists would defeat Chiang's Nationalists. Service went to court and won reinstatement in 1957 but never again served...
...Belfast Catholic politician. "There are no longer so many houses harboring guns, so the I.R.A. has to put them in the garden, in cellophane bags, and the army's digging them up. There aren't any demonstrations against the Proves, but people show their resistance. The curtain has begun to come down...
...tremendous enthusiasm that Kahn's teaching-no less than his buildings-evokes in other architects is partly explained by the decay of the socalled International Style. That system of curtain-wall, frame-and-fill architecture came to America from the Bauhaus, and has dominated the nation's cityscapes ever since. But the past decade has not been kind to the International Style. As the last "rational" abstract mode of building, it has been much attacked as unresponsive to human needs. The architect as master planner, exerting in his structures a pressure, both functional and ethical, on the messy...