Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them out in the rain"). His Grace's advice on that "macro-snob" tradition, the weekend houseparty: "Do not go to bed with the hostess unless it is really necessary-almost unavoidable...
...From the verse: Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace. Tuesday is also the traditional closing day for Negro weekly newspapers...
Tuesday, September 14 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Bridges at Toko-Ri, with William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March and Mickey Rooney. Color...
...curves of an easy mathematical beauty let drivers see at least twice as far ahead as the distance they might need-even at the engineered 70 m.p.h.-to come to a stop. The same curves, plus the swirling cloverleafs, give much of the system a pre-Raphaelite art and grace...
...Some 16 ft. high at the tallest point, the two pieces represent the rounded rump and upright torso of a semireclining figure. Typically Moore-ish, she abstractly lounges in the reflecting pool, mingling the domestic grace of a nude in her bath with the powerful, primitive presence of a goddess disturbed from sleep by Leonard Bernstein. Manhattan's mightiest piece of modern sculpture was wrestled into place pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with...