Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carter Lord had a creditable afternoon, reaching base twice and throwing out a runner at the plate with a monstrous peg from centerfield. The team's record now stands at five wins and three losses...
Other .300 hitters include Captain Carter Lord, third baseman John Igna cio, whose .370 average is the second best on the squad, and catcher Bill Cobb...
...Count the Candles was an "essay" on aging, stunningly directed and filmed by Britain's Lord Snowdon. "Ours is an age that venerates the young," said a narrator. 'The old we tolerate." So much for narration. The rest of the story belonged to the eloquent black-and-white cinematography, the first ever attempted by Snowdon. Among the telling vignettes: desolate faces and palsied hands fighting dinner hour in an old folks' home; Cecil Beaton, 64, describing his "first signs , of , loneliness" and his denture problems; a' Septuagenarian marriage ceremony in which the bride momentarily forgot...
...snipped right back: "Aren't you being a bit fussy?" Then, casting a rueful glance at the guest's shears, she added: "That thing looks like something out of a medieval torture chamber." Another time, while administering to a Star of Bethlehem, she suddenly cried: "Oh, good Lord! Signs of slugs!" Rummaging through the soil like a Roto-Rooter, she exclaimed, "Aha! There's the little brute!" and flipped it onto a table. As the camera zoomed in for a closeup, she advised squeamish viewers to avert their eyes. Then she went into a mighty windup...
Vatentino was in New York to help Lord & Taylor launch a collection of 22 pieces copied from his spring and summer show. The lift-off was phenomenal. Some of the originals in fact, never made it to the show; Mrs. Alan Jay Lerner made off with a $1,000 caped white dress with a jeweled belt before it hit the runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias...