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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The anthologist and the poet corresponded for 46 years. Frost did the talking, Untermeyer the prompting, and the result is a wonderful portrait of Frost, with all his crotchets on display...
...Each had obviously spent considerable time and money in bringing her appearance to the pitch of perfection. Eyes were carefully shaded with "kohl" (antimony), skins painted and bodies held taut and provocative within the stresses of the short little kilts and tightly fitted "matari" (little short jackets designed to display the lower half of the bosom...
Davletbay Khodzhabov's Cossack riders provide the most spectacular display. Six of them in red jackets and high white hats race around the ring, swinging from side to side, picking up flags, and holding on with their feet as their arms drag on the ground, while a seventh stands in the center cracking a long leather bullwhip...
...does spark one sizzling scene of class animus at a drunken, brawling Christmas party. The wing commander (Dallas Cavell), a jowly autocrat who regards the conscripts as disgusting animals and wants to see them make a loutish display of themselves, calls for some rock-'n'-roll music. Pip stops the music and coaxes one of the conscripts to sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass...
...than anything in the world to bring Ireland-the beautiful, inspired, elegant, romantic Ireland-to America." Lord & Taylor sent out two advance scouts with cameras and expense accounts to see what the Emerald Isle had to offer. Wave after wave followed -two vice presidents, two merchandise managers, 26 buyers, display men, art directors, photographers, fashion editors. Eleven months, 48 transatlantic crossings, and more than $1,000,000 later, Lord & Taylor has assembled enough Eireana to stun St. Patrick...