Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cranbrook: the furniture and interior design by the Saarinens, the Eameses, Bertoia, Florence Schust Knoll and others. One exhibit replicates a typical mid-century office. Designed by Florence Knoll, it combines the work of Cranbrook creators into a smart, elegant interior, as representative of our time as the Victorian parlor was of its own. Like so much else from Cranbrook, the interiors evince a belief in the joy of design without the restraints of dogma, Weltanschauung, polemics, fad or fashion. At the same time, they live up to Founder Saarinen's credo that "the first thing and the most...
...futuristic visions (Kingsley Amis' The Anti-Death League, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence). His list is as striking for what it leaves out as for what it includes. Every reader will have his favorite omissions-after all, that is half the fun of literary parlor games like this-but just to name five: John Cheever's Bullet Park, Nigel Dennis' Cards of Identity, J.F. Powers' Morte d'Urban and almost anything by Peter De Vries and Barbara...
...including the loss of family members and the struggle of women to support their families, handled with any sense of urgency or credibility. As Goldie Hawn stands in line for her job interview, a woman wearing white gloves and looking as if she just emerged from the beauty parlor turns to Kay and says. "I really need this job, I've got a kid to feed...
...Fernandez left the Harvard campus by subway, but finding things a bit too congested, hitchiked her way to Natick. "It was as far as I could get," she said. So that's where she started running. And she ran right into a Natick beauty parlor...
...knew that if I had any problems like a squeaky sneaker or a running nose it would really distract me," she said. "Well, I had wet gloves. So I went into a beauty parlor where a very nice Italian man let me blow dry my gloves and everything was cool...