Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aesthetically stunning: at the end of an opera in Dreyden, the huge candle-laden silver chandeliers descend glowing white, gold and silver from the ceiling. Lowered past the grey arches of the boxes, they throw black shadows upwards. Below, dark figures in cocked hats wait, holding huge semicircular fans of metal. Waving these, they fan out the chandeliers. When the hall is darkened, they hoist the fans over their shoulders and march out, footsteps echoing rhythmically. The whole scene is the elaborate artifice of a long dead time and place, but the patterns, colors and shapes in which...
...meantime. Gilmore sat in his solitary cell, guarded round the clock, answering a foot-high pile of fan mail. "His mind hasn't changed," said his uncle, Damico. "I think Gary will get what he wants." And it still appeared that all Gary wanted was to finish up his last meal and face a firing squad. He was not without supporters: a Harris poll reported last week that 71% of the country believed that after the nation's decade-long moratorium on capital punishment, Gilmore should be executed...
Most every hockey fan in the East had to be surprised when the Boston University Terriers dropped their first five games of this hockey season...
...Fan (proudly): Edward R. Murrow, Orson Welles and Tom Snyder...
...answer period and then a hat passing. The lecturer for the following Sunday, Jan. 23, will be Margaret Furnham, the defense attorney for Angela Davis and Ella Ellison, whose topic will be "Rape, Racism, and Criminal Justice." On Jan 30 Maxine Klein, director of the plays "Tania" and "Fan-shen" will give her thoughts on "Political Theater." And on Feb. 6, Florence Luscomb, who has worked actively in the field of women's rights for most of her life will speak on the occasion of her 90th birthday concerning her hopes "For a Second American Revolution...