Word: gazebo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have the opportunity to fail your own person, your own life, your own body, your own family, your own self. I ask you once more, those of you who smoke, to get up here and sign that pledge to stop now!" Perspiring, Reverend Brooks stepped down from his green gazebo pulpit. Somebody held out a lighted cigarette; he accepted it gratefully and took a long, deep drag...
...importance of a character's setting extends to objects and backgrounds, which are very prominent in Sirk's films. Objects define people's character and actions (for example, a Cupid statue Count Volski admires in his gazebo betrays the childishness of his lecherous tendencies). They also cramp people in space; echo people's forms (often to savegely ironic effect--the statue in Volski's garden next to which Fyodor stands looking up at Olga); and in these ways subtly influence and define people's appearances and actions. Here, however, the influence is one-way. People cannot change objects as they...
...draws audiences from Boston and beyond. Winsted, Conn., Rotarians raised $6,000 to build a new bandstand; Lions in Winchester, Mass., pledged their 50-member band a new shell. Boston's new Prudential Center plaza has gingham-covered tables, straw boaters on the light globes and its own Gazebo Band...
...series of ominous portents. Wolfgang's staging of Lohengrin last month, his first effort since his brother's death, departed markedly from Wieland's stylization and simplification and seemed to echo the old conservatism in stead. The bridal chamber was done up like a Moorish gazebo. Singers were allowed to return to the old style of explicit gesticulation and heavy underlining of points in the text...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Napoleon Solo and Illya beard George Sanders in a British castle in "The Gazebo in the Maze Affair." Repeat...