Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a good natured warning about a wrist hold ("Don't get carried away now; but if you ever have to use it, give a good jerk and pop, it breaks."), an instructor demonstrated the evening's final highlight, the Boston Crab. The heels eventually join the head with obvious consequences. Everyone smiled appreciatively...
...Binge. Highlight of its latest issue is Civil War Correspondent (Chicago Times) Sylvanus Cadwallader's hitherto unpublished account of a two-day binge of General Grant. During the siege of Vicksburg, Cadwallader encountered Grant staggering through the barroom of a Mississippi steamboat. Wrote Cadwallader: "I . . . enticed him into his stateroom, locked myself in the room with him . . . and commenced throwing bottles of whisky . . . into the river. Grant soon ordered me out of the room, but I refused to go . . . I said to him that I was the best friend he had in the Army of the Tennessee . . ." Grant continued...
...resplendent highlight of Long Island's summer social season, widening Automogul Henry Ford II and his petite wife Anne, togged for a make-believe Arabian night, met up with tall-on-the-camel Cinemactor Gary (Beau Geste) Cooper at a Baghdad ball in Southampton. For his resemblance to a sheik on his way to a shower bath, Arabian Knight Cooper copped first prize in the men's division for his getup's elegant authenticity...
Squat, scrubby-bearded, stiletto-eyed Dick Croker was a crook. A highlight of his rule came when the Rev. Charles Parkhurst of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church disguised himself as a Bowery tough and undertook a personal investigation of New York's vice conditions. Dr. Parkhurst's fellow crusader on this foray reported later that Parkhurst had sat "with an unmoved face" in a brothel, watching a troupe of naked prostitutes play leapfrog while Madam Hattie Adams playfully tweaked his whiskers...
Among the 160-odd illustrations in the show, one highlight was a little chiaroscuro woodcut attributed to Titian, which served as the frontispiece to an edition of Aretino's poems published in 1537. Titian surely would not have looked down on such an assignment; his greatest paintings were also illustrations-mainly of the Bible and of pagan myths. Whether actually Titian's or not. the Met's woodcut of a poet dreamily worshiping his muse shows a humanistic spirit typical of the 16th century, when artists took life itself for their province, describing it largely in terms...