Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Workmen filled flower pots and painted a door blue yesterday to complete the renovation of Radcliffe's Agassiz building...
...FAIR LADY. Audrey Hepburn seems delightfully right as the cockney flower peddler transformed into a lady by Professor Rex Harrison, and the happy news is that this lush, eye-filling adaptation of the Lerner-Loewe musical delivers a round $17 million worth of elegant escapism...
Music Tent. Chagall kept flower arrangements near him while he worked, and his design soon took on the shape of petals, which blossomed into a dreamlike homage to opera and ballet. His favorite composer, Mozart, occupies half of the big blue gore with angelic nudes and a bird playing The Magic Flute; Chagallic vignettes of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov fill the rest of the blue space. On around the circle, clockwise, yellow-bedecked dancers pirouette to Adam's Giselle and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Ballet is further honored in the red petal, with Stravinsky's Firebird...
Sensing this new status, the Democratic National Committee staged tonight's victory ball in Washington's most sedate, tasteful and elegant hotel: The May-flower. Along the gently curving balconies of the ballroom, party employees draped slender streamers of bunting dotted with tiny LBJ-HHH stickers. At each end of the room hung modestly sized portraits of the ticket mates, both pale and humorless...
...film's richest asset may well be Rex Harrison, making capital of the closeup in his 1,007th performance as irascible Professor Henry Higgins, who masterminds the metamorphosis of the cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle. Harrison still talks his songs and sings his dialogue in a triumph of stylized, polished acting that would be memorable with or without music. Another holdover from Broadway is Stanley Holloway, raffishly repeating his role as Eliza's father, a dustman-turned-moralist who speaks some of Shaw's most corrosively funny lines-wisely preserved intact-then stops the show with...