Word: fishtailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoking torch to light a royal procession through a gallery. The Louvre's Grande Galerie, begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert made the first experiment with indirect lighting when military searchlights were reflected from an overhead muslin screen to illuminate paintings. Today, says New York's Metropolitan...
...tunes, seldom even daring to let go with gags. Moreover, the book has Lena Horne on every page, and Harold Arlen to turn the page while she is singing one or another of his songs. She is beautiful, and with what elegant sexuality she twists about in tight-curving, fishtail skirts. She is accomplished in a way all her own, seldom raising her voice, never neon-lighting her effects. With equal seductiveness, she spoofs mechanization in Push the Button, or great-men-turned-to-dust in Napoleon, or sings woman-to-woman in Ain't It the Truth...
Hammond, a sophomore, completed the 100 yard dolphin, or "fishtail" breast-stroke in 57.9, to smash the M.I.T. pool mark of 1:10.1. He also bettered a Harvard time of 58.6 seconds set by himself this year...
...Pantheon in Rome. The rotunda and windowless exhibition wings are constructed of over 40 kinds and shades of marble, from "Istrian Nuage" (Italy) to "Vermont Radio Black," and enclose five acres of exhibition space. There are fat-cushioned couches for the foot-weary, and fountain courts ringed with fishtail palms to soothe the eye-weary. Behind the scenes is an air-conditioning system that gulps 5,000 gallons of water a minute. Some 600 lamps, like those used for night baseball, glow softly through the diffusion-glass ceiling...
Hawkins qualified for the 100-yard butterfly event April 3 in a time more than a second slower than that of Leonide Baarcke of North Carolina. Baarcke used the new fishtail or dolphin kick, and Hawkins, the regular frog kick...