Word: maidening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early Christian legend said that Irishmen were so pious that a rich, beautiful maiden could travel the length of the island unmolested...
Hancock is a complex pianist; a pioneer in electric piano who earned his reputation on the acoustical ivories. He is topnotch on both, but I have always preferred his soft Maiden Voyage stuff to his more recent-jazz synthesis. But I'm in the minority on this point...
...shown to be a homosexual with decided S-M leanings. But psychopathology runs against the grain of a free, open form that numbers among its prime attractions the promise of not bothering to delve into such dark and irrelevant mat ters. Genevieve Bujold, as the high-spirited, high-born maiden with whom Rob ert Shaw, as the pirate leader, is naturally expected to carry on a fighting romance, is required to get into a duel with him. Presumably, that is something the athletic and liberated modern wom an can identify with, but it is a silly business. Olivia de Havilland...
...pitman driving arms of the 2,000-horsepower steam engine to begin turning the 35-ft.-wide red paddle wheel. American flags fluttered to port and to starboard. Decked out in red, white and blue bunting, the Mississippi Queen pulled slowly away from Cincinnati's Public Landing. The maiden voyage of the first overnight steamboat built in 50 years was officially under...
...miles of river from Cincinnati to New Orleans under a special congressional exemption from the federal safety-at-sea law. Now she has company on her route: the spanking-new, 379-ft. Mississippi Queen, an all-steel stern-wheeler that this week completes her 18-day maiden round-trip voyage. TIME Correspondent Anne Constable was aboard on the first leg of the journey. Her report...