Word: lacing
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...will admit that upon his first entrance, Stulberg's brown-turtlenecked attire impressed me as representative of a healthy, interesting attitude toward his music. "At last," I thought, "I can enjoy a concert which is not overpowered by the conductor's flash of tuxedo and lace." Little did I know how wrong...
...Donleavy, born 49 years ago in New York City and now living in a large Georgian house on a 180-acre cattle farm in Ireland. There is more than a touch of stately grandiloquence to the Donleavy prose, with its Latinate preferences and its "My-dear-sir!" bursts of lace-cuff-shooting mock elegance. But what the cadenced prose does is to set up the reader for the moment when Donleavy belches out his violent, scurrilous message: life, taken all in all, is obscene-the ultimate four-letter word...
...must have the courage to remain a Byproduct Nation. We must have the courage to be concrete, to specify our projects while still refusing to fence in our national hopes. We must refuse the so lace of ideology and crusading dogmas. While others talk of National Purpose, we must remain a nation in quest, believing that for us there can only be national purposes, that these are newly revealed to every generation, and that our efforts must be devoted no less to discovery than to fulfillment. We must not forget our oldest tradition - that our New World is a reservoir...
Accompanying the text are a variety of photographs (reproductions and slides by Tod Stuart from The Carpenter Center for The Visual Arts), some enlarged to fill one or more whole panels, as a picture of Anna Howard Shaw, lace-collared feminist; some in old-fashioned oval cameo frames. Other graphics include illustrations of old sewing machines culled from early catalogues, some alarming anatomical diagrams captioned "effects of corsets on the rib cage and organs," a high-stepping Flapper, scenes of factory work--a whole range of women in their changing images...
...playing a Victorian maiden," acknowledged six-time Wife Zsa Zsa Gabor, sixtyish. Far funnier to watch. Co-starring with Sister Eva, two years younger, Zsa Zsa opened last week at Chicago's Arlington Park Theater in a five-week revival of the classic farce Arsenic and Old Lace. "It's going to make theatrical history," announced Eva. The original script has been changed. The two old Brooklyn ladies who mercy-kill homeless tramps have been given a recent European ancestry to explain why Eva and Zsa Zsa romp round like two cocottes from the court of mad King...