Word: loft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...packing enormous power into small nuclear warheads, the Redstone, Jupiter and Atlas missiles designed to carry them were only of modest size. The Russians, who were behind in nuclear technology, had only more primitive and massive warheads to use; they were forced to build enormous rockets to loft them. But the Soviet's military liability eventually became a prime scientific asset. By 1961, when President Kennedy proclaimed a national goal of landing men on the moon before the end of the decade, the Soviets had already used huge rockets to blast far ahead of the U.S. In September...
DENVER, COLO., Elitch Theater. Robert Cummings plays a Midwest adman who prides himself on being a swinger but finds that life styles are mostly a matter of Generation when he pays a visit to his daughter's Greenwich Village loft...
...because he has had long experience with the sea. Born rich and raised in the rich stretches of Newport's Ocean Drive, he sails his own 20-ft. gaff-rigged sloop. After studying architecture in Paris, he experimented with abstract expressionist painting and junk sculpture in a Manhattan loft. Then one day he stepped into an elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches his ideas on paper, next lays out a full-scale...
Antlers in the Chair. During rare moments of inactivity in his Manhattan home-an elegantly eccentric converted loft in the garment district-Schneider sometimes lapses into a Dostoevskian depression at the thought that his generation and its values are passing. "We had a respect-for father and mother, for our teachers, for the universe," he muses. "From that came a certain discipline. That is what I miss." The self-indulgent style of some of the youngsters coming up in today's foundation-fed music world appalls him. "If they wear sunglasses, long hair and have dirty fingernails...
When I was fourteen and a collector of comic books in New York, I used to go downtown to a dirty loft its owners called The Memory Shop to trade early Batman comics for early Dick Tracy with a tough truck driver from St. Louis who fell by every month or so. He was tall and unshaven and sweaty, so it surprised me the first time when his voice revealed him a gentle nervous faggot. I would have forgotten him had I not seen him reincarnated last night as Flute, the Bellows-mender, later Thisbe, both parts executed by Woody...