Word: mask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love with the Proper Stranger. This romantic comedy-drama succeeds in spite of itself, for it is brimful of enough warmth and hip humor to mask a decidedly rancid plot. The girl Angie (Natalie Wood) is a clerk at Macy's. The boy Rocky (Steve McQueen) is a part-time musician temporarily bunking with a nightclub stripper, Edie Adams. One day at Rocky's union hiring hall, Angie appears and tells him: "I'm gonna have a baby." He blinks at her, then: "Congratulations." He can't remember the girl's name...
...violently whirling plane, trying to bring it out of the spin. Only at 6,000 ft. did he give up and eject, parachuting minutes later onto the Mojave Desert with burns on the left side of his face and neck, probably caused by ignition of the oxygen in his mask. The scheduled later assault on the Russian-held world altitude record from ground take-off (113,890 ft.) was scrubbed-and a colleague added an understated postscript to the incident: "The colonel stayed with the plane a little longer than personal safety would have dictated...
...Napoleonic nécessaire-an elaborate Empire traveling case designed for Bonaparte's second wife, Marie Louise. By way of exotica, the Munich Schatzkammer has a brace of bejeweled Ceylonese chests, Persian daggers and Turkish scimitars, Ming porcelains set in Renaissance gold frames, a Mexican stone mask embellished by a German goldsmith after it got to Munich...
Last week, while children used the ARTerie's red couch for a trampoline, their parents were buying as if television were going out of style. After five days in business, 114 paintings had been rented, while more than 100 pieces of art, including an African circumcision mask, had been sold. The management plans soon to throw in a free car-wash with every purchase...
...then Pompadour had to be doubly on guard against being driven from favor by more lusty ladies -among them a curvaceous Celt with the improbable name of Louise O'Murphy who "looked like a naughty Rubens." The strain was terrific. "When in private she could remove her mask," Levron writes, "she was, at thirty-seven, already an elderly, exhausted and haggard woman who spat blood...