Word: parlor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Across the breezeway in the combination parlor-bedroom where L.B.J. was born, a small fan whirs insignificantly in the stifling midday heat. A pregnant woman, wilting outside her air-conditioned car turns to a companion and whispers, "Imagine going into labor in this heat." On a nearby wall hangs a narrative, "A President Is Born," written by Rebekah Baines Johnson and recalling "the sharp, compelling cry" in the room as "the first child of Sam Ealy and Rebekah Johnson was 'discovering America...
...always enjoyed doing tricks with money. One of the Baltimore contractor's favorite stunts is to twist a dollar bill into the shape of a politician's last initial and present it to him as a gift. Frenkil's sleight of hand is not confined to parlor tricks. As contractor for the House of Representatives' underground garage, completed in 1967, he has been trying for the past four years to parlay an $11.8 million contract into a $16.8 million windfall. He has managed to enlist the aid of some powerful political assistants...
...Curator Berry Tracy spent three years tracking down and assembling some 300 pieces, many destined for permanent exhibition when the museum expands its American Wing. One of the earliest rooms contains a severe but elegant Duncan Phyfe parlor set done around 1837 in the master's late Empire style. Twenty years later, the fashion for historical revivals was in full swing; the yellow satin sofa and chairs of the John Taylor Johnston parlor are a free adaptation of Louis XVI neoclassicism by the French-trained New York designer Léon Marcotte. Over them hangs a chandelier that cunningly...
...success: custom-built limousines with fur upholstery, nine airplanes, 3,000 pairs of cuff links (many of them solid gold) and homes in Denver, Hawaii, Palm Springs and Manhattan. His ranch outside Granby, Colo., encompasses 400 acres, has guesthouses that accommodate 120 people, a shooting gallery and a beauty parlor. What else could a man wish for? King wants to be a billionaire within ten years...
...suburbia, the shattering of some romantic girlhood dreams, the parade of horror every night on the late news. What is stressed, underscored and bludgeoned home is the general ugliness of married life. Brooks just cannot let it alone. Add to this a generous quota of misogyny (lots of beauty parlor closeups of fat thighs, wrinkled faces, and housewives struggling into girdles), and the result is a film as misguided and one-sided as the marriage it struggles to portray...