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...sculptor. Isn't it silly?" he said, but he didn't mean it. To him, his style of sculpturing is unalloyed joy, and all around Rube Goldberg's studio the happy evidence is beginning to pile up. There is a balloon-breasted Lady Godiva in plasteline - being leered at by her horse. Under a sign reading PLASTIC SURGERY sit three miniature patients in desperate cosmetic need: a man and wife with Jimmy Durante schnozzles and a hopeful-looking toucan. They all look very much like comic-strip characters in three dimensions. Which is just what they...
...been looking forward to this ride," said Lady Godiva shiftlessly...
Seedy Surroundings. Clustered mainly in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, off-Broadway's theaters exert the faintly exotic double lure of intellectual climbing and Bohemian slumming among asthenic men with beards and girls with Lady Godiva hairdos. The playhouses themselves are adventures, or misadventures; in these pleasure domes, a chair arm may fall off at the gentlest touch. But seedy surroundings cannot tarnish the bright promise that off-Broadway holds out and sometimes spectacularly fulfills. It gives new playwrights, directors and actors a voice. On intimate, semiround or full arena stages, old and neglected classics have been given fresh...
...original Peeping Tom had had a Rolleiflex with him that day in Coventry, Lady Godiva might have made the grade in a modern hair-rinse ad. But, come to think of it, the agency boys would probably have asked her to run through it again - a little less covered...
...public-spirited Lady named Godiva and her husband, Earl Leofric, built Coventry's first great church in 1043; it stood until Henry VIII had it pulled down around 1540. A second-the magnificent Gothic St. Michael's Cathedral-was completed in 1433, and lasted until the night of Nov. 14, 1940, when 500 German planes bombed it in a raid that forever linked the city's name to the destructiveness of modern war. Only the outer walls, tower and spire of St. Michael's were left standing...