Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chateau. Earlier that evening, 50,000 people had trekked out to the magnificent 17th century palace-home of France's royal court until the revolution of 1789-for a fireworks festival celebrating the arrival of summer. While Roman candles and rockets cannonaded across Versailles's famed formal gardens, one visitor secreted a time bomb in a cupboard in the chateau's south wing. The blast, which went off some time around 2 a.m., was verified by the police one half-hour later when a squad car made a routine check of the palace...
Overhead, huge glass chandeliers hover like Cobra gunships in a white tropical sun. The Los Angeles Marriott Hotel ballroom is a sea of white military formal wear, pink and blue evening dresses, candles and carnations over red carpeting. Nelson Riddle's orchestra swings into What Kind of Fool Am I? as Sammy Davis Jr. hails "our mutual friend" Richard Nixon, then reflects on the song: "I don't think anyone in this room has to re-examine their lives...
...intercollegiate level, HEW has preferred to encourage rather than intervene. Prodded by three formal complaints by women students and their parents, the University of Michigan, which perennially runs one of the most successful men's athletic programs in the nation, has made considerable progress toward equality. In 1973 the school had only informal competition for women; now, just five years later, it has ten varsity teams, to the men's eleven. Next year Michigan will award the equivalent of 30 scholarships at a cost of $100,000, compared with the 190 at over $700,000 that will...
...17th century Entertainments at a House of Pleasure-an inventory of the resources of a refined, high-class brothel, populated by dozens of crisply drawn, languid silhouettes of women and clients in - and out of- their party kimonos. On the right, above the moon-viewing platform, formal pleasures: the brewing of tea, a game of cards, and a manifestly alcoholic banquet...
...basis of Westermann's art, which provides both the curt humor and the haunted pessimism with a formal matrix, is craftsmanship. After quitting the Marines in 1952, Westermann eked out his G.I. Bill income by working as a handyman and carpenter-precariously, since his standards of joinery and finish soon became too high for him to be employable in the quick-profit building trade. His sculptures have always been exquisitely made, the rare-wood inlays done with a skill almost vanished from modern American joinery, every miter and dovetail fitted to perfect tolerances. This pitch of care gives...