Word: folderols
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...York World's Fair, as a part of a Merrie England folderol, the Bard of Avon is played inside a replica of the famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
...opulent, cool and massive back. A pig-eyed, swollen-bellied little courtesan appeared in Lucas Cranach's delicately painted Nymph Reposing. From the 17th Century came a dusky Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs by France's great Nicolas Poussin. How nude painting became stage prettiness and erotic folderol in 18th-and early 19th-Century France was almost too amply demonstrated in pictures by Watteau, Boucher, Baudouin, Girodet and Prud...
...will between Cambridge and Harvard that the real objective--Plan E--has been completely obscured. The sole recrimination against the alleged Harvard participation in Plan E activities which is now causing the University any concern is the tax question. The other proposals can probably be labeled as political folderol...
...when reelected, calling another world conference. Those to be invited: Britain's Edward VIII, Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany's Hitler, France's Lebrun, tiptop representatives Japan and China, "a few others." Their object: to discuss Disarmament and Peace without any diplomatic folderol...
...platform "never to put a man in jail for things I do myself," he was elected in 1932 a justice of New York's Supreme Court (equivalent to a superior court of original jurisdiction). On the bench he made a record as a notable debunker of legal folderol...