Word: nether
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need not quibble over the scientific premises to question the final relevance of Miss Laski's play. A playwright is of course entitled to make use of a nether-world such as her postwar England; but a good writer uses it to comment on reality rather than to indulge a hypothetical vision. Miss Laski's commentary lacks political validity: in presenting her image of nuclear destruction, she strains toward praise of an isolationist status quo. Thus Rachel Verney informs her Amercan rescuer, "for five years I've been free from guilt. I've lived in peace with my family...
...south end will be a shrine: the Arch of Freedom, in which the original of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will be on display. In the same area will be a museum, a library, the state archives building, and an outdoor amphitheater. Automobiles will be banished to the nether regions. Vehicles will unload on two levels below the promenade, and beneath the reflecting pools will be parking space for 3,000 cars...
...monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally paths of ice, and a man could have skated 100 miles from Boulogne to Beauvais. As rivers and canals froze in The Nether lands, droves of ice skaters turned out, and 50 drowned in a single day. In some places along Europe's Baltic coast, the sea itself was turning...
Victorian gentlemen, rustled and bustled at by ladies in swathes of outer material and nether armor, paid handsome prices for paintings of unclad women in voluptuous tangles, with titles like A Nude Woman or Youth on the Prow and Pleasure at the Helm, and a barroom without a nude was naked indeed. But today the naked lady-or bits and pieces of her-is filling the advertising columns and editorial pages of the fashion magazines, general magazines and even family newspapers...
...acting is easily the best Charlton Heston has done since he graduated out of circus pictures and into the nether spheres of legend and religion. There is perceptible growth to go along with the increasing use of grey Tintone: and the final scene of the film, in which the dead Cid is propped in his saddle to lead his troops into battle, comes as near as one can expect to the power of real myth. As the lovely Chimene, Sophia Loren is overwhelmingly lovely. Much of the drama of her story has been cut out; unlike the Corneille heroine...