Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third consecutive Wednesday, a group of Garden Street legislators yesterday retired behind a Lace Curtain to discuss highly classified material. Reporters were barred from news coverage of the strictly confidential topics. Participants were sworn to secrecy about the proceedings of the star chamber sessions...
...howl and bite. But so abruptly do things shift focus, so wildly do they change tone, that farce firecrackers negate real bullets, and virtues are turned into faults. Where, by a stylized atmosphere and a sardonic inflection, Waltz of the Toreadors could mate humor with horror, lace wormwood with Vichy. Square Root jangles with false notes. Where, again, Williams could make a dynamic-if uncentered-story of Cat, could drive abreast the three themes of a blighted marriage, a parent-and-child relationship and a girl's family-in-law, Square Root cannot drive them tandem...
...talked pleasantly to Lee about birds and animals, said his name was Bob. Suddenly the man clapped his hand over Lee's mouth, warned him to "be quiet and don't make any noise because I don't want to hurt you." The kidnaper stuffed a lace handkerchief into Lee's mouth, then tied another around his face. The boy was then led to the car, shoved into the trunk-which, Lee noted, had holes punched in the lid-and carried...
...contrast with delicacy. It is the place where at times you will be sick, when you want comfort, not refinement. It is the place where you will want to die. when you want majesty, not daintiness. What woman worthy of the name wants to see her man sleep in lace...
WITHOUT LOVE, by Gerald Hanley (245 pp.; Harper; $3.50), has a theme that might be described as disgrace under pressure. Mike Brennan, the seedy son of a lace-curtain London-Irish family, is hanging around present-day Barcelona waiting to commit just one last political murder before he tells all to a priest. Like Britain's London-Irish William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), Brennan had fallen out of the church into Mosley's Blackshirts. Via the Nazi SS, he becomes, by double desertion, a journeyman executioner for Russia's secret police. Yet he is not a devoted...