Word: loft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long on the back streets, gospel singers greet the establishment's new enthusiasm with a doubting, puzzled Wha? Many of them have been working as rhythm-and-blues singers, and now they can be in the new groove merely by singing the remembered songs of their childhood choir-loft days. But even with all the corporate delight at the new groove's financial prospects, the cheerful, sensate piety of the music had already begun to sound like its own requiem by the end of the first week of official enthusiasm. Gospel music is the last remaining unpackaged expression...
...skies are rarely blue. Especially in her city scenes, they are overcast; always they are suffused with a pattern of sweeping bright pastels that progress in orderly fashion through a hesitant horizon down into the richer-hued grounds. Her canvases are generally square, giving the illusion of more loft of sky than breadth of horizon...
...sounds perfectly insufferable. David and Liz are newlyweds and weanling artists. In full flight from the soft clutch of uptown parental comfort, the two make their nest in an industrial loft in lower Manhattan. After a series of predictable experiences-first night, first fight, first child-they are drawn back to the kind of cozy middle-class coop they flew in the first place...
...repeated a thousand times to teach the boy coordination and mathematical precision in speaking. Today, Richard understandably hates telephones; but he speaks with fantastic precision. Also, Phil Burton would take Richard to the summit of Mynydd Margam, the last high mountain between Pontrhydyfen and the sea, and have him loft arias from Shakespeare into the wind. As Phil Burton moved farther and farther away from the spot on which Richard stood...
Nothing happens for a while, and K. breathes easier. Then suddenly he is summoned to a "hearing." He arrives-but what sort of court is this? It sits in a dingy old loft. Its "lawbooks" are filled with pornographic pictures. The examining magistrate gets K.'s case all mixed up with the case of a house painter. To conduct his defense, K. retains an advocate (Orson Welles). But while the old earwig is mumbling about legal problems, K. sneaks off with his chambermaid (Romy Schneider), a sexy witch with webbed fingers who takes him for a tumble...