Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remember the guy in the chef's hat on Sesame Street, who would walk up the stairs singing, "Five, five, five, five, let's sing a song of five... How many is five...
...most appealing impersonation remains Trudy the Bag Lady, who talks with aliens from outer space and wears pantyhose rolled down as though they were leg irons, but who knows exactly what is going on when she mocks gene splicing and pop art, or explains the virtues of the umbrella hat. The most poignant sequence is a reminiscence by a woman who is selling her home and its contents after the breakup of her marriage to what seemed to be a sensitive, feminist man. The piece is at once an unabashed defense of human-potential movements and a candid acceptance...
...which opened on Broadway last week, the structure as usual looks ambitious but the execution is sweet and simple. The opening half is a solo song cycle about a young Englishwoman (Bernadette Peters) who comes to the U.S. to pursue romance, glamour and a hard-nosed career as a hat designer. At first she is abused by men who exploit her, or treat her as another expensive toy, or shy away from commitment. Then she treats a man that way, condemns herself for it and vows to recapture her lost innocence...
...summer afternoon, Trooper 1st Class Frank Woullard was sitting by Interstate 70 in Frederick, Md., in a bright yellow, nine-ton State Highway Administration truck. Woullard's giveway tan hat sat on the seat beside him and his radar detector sat on his lap, safely out of view. Woullard didn't dare show his face to oncoming traffic--instead, he watched for speeders in the rear-view mirror...
Grant remembered it all on the porch of a cottage at Mount McGregor in the foothills of the Adirondacks in the summer of 1885, 100 years ago. He was dying of cancer. As he sat in a silk top hat, reassembling the past, tourists came to stare at him from a little distance. He let them watch, even wanted them to. So many planes of the public and the private intersected in Grant: the obscure American failure who saved the Union. Now, at the last, the shabby embarrassment who was also the first genius of industrial warfare made the intimate...