Word: prow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blue for Blondes. Diana is tireless at publicizing Diana. She posed almost nude for a bestselling booklet called Diana Dors in Three D. Clad in a mink bikini, she skimmed down Venice's Grand Canal on the prow of a gondola. Meanwhile, she worked hard to prove herself an expert mimic. She can skillfully play Cockneys, Scotsmen, Irishmen and Americans. Critics like her ("Her main gift is impertinence. Not only does she stimulate the libido, she also transmits charm . . . and is about as neurotic as an ice-cream cornet*"). The public takes...
...latching carried over even into the religious ceremonies. Indian artists were called on to outdo themselves in carving masks, staffs and rattles. Each symbol and convention had its meaning. The double-profiled portrayals of totem gods were apparently adapted from images first painted on both sides of the prow of a war canoe. Totem gods like Killer Whale were sometimes pictured with their entrails revealed to show lesser animals which they had swallowed. Even the massive totem poles were meant as seriously as medieval coats of arms to display family crests and famous ancestors. Such gods as Bear and Wolf...
...French Cinemactor Jean Marais: "Your name begins with a caress and ends with a whiplash. You wear feathers and furs which seem to be part of your body like the furs of beasts and the feathers of birds . . . There comes to us, in full sail, a frigate, a prow's figurehead, a Chinese fish, a lyre bird, unbelievable and marvelous...
...really magnificent sets. Ingeniously exploiting the vastness of Sanders' stage, Mr. Lithgow uses with distinction that space which has dwarfed less skillfully-designed scenery. Essentially, the set consists of three frames, descending in size from the right side of the stage. With this arrangement, even a scene aboard the prow of a junk--projecting into the middle frame--does not seem out of place...
...India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes. It looked like a Viking galley, and standing in its prow were warriors dressed like Viking sea kings of old. At Calcutta's Out-ram Ghat pier, one stepped ashore and delivered a pole-sized replica of a new cigarette made by India's Imperial Tobacco Co. Its name: Sea King...