Word: prow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bailey's highly subjective shutter shows Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski in a bare-chested embrace, looking like an older, less innocent reincarnation of Romeo and Juliet. Candice Bergen poses as though she belongs on the prow of a ship-and says that she "can't think of anything grimmer than being an ageing actress; god, it's worse than being an ageing homosexual." Rudolf Nureyev romps with Cecil Beaton; Jeanne Moreau presses her fingers nervously to her mouth; Malcolm Muggeridge scowls in fearsome closeup. And Fashion Designer Douglas Hayward remarks: "Everyone is so insecure . . . what...
...hard to remember H. G. Wells except as a caricature. He looms as a kind of cartoon figurehead on the prow of the 20th century-plump and cheerful, goggle-eyed with confidence, breasting a sea labeled Progress...
...this station, the destroyer could rescue any fliers who hit the water. Although such close-in maneuvering is necessarily hazardous, Evans had made similar position changes earlier in the exercises without mishap. This time, inexplicably, the destroyer cruised right into the path of the massive carrier. The heavy steel prow of Melbourne shredded through the port side of Evans like a pair of tin shears...
...heroes in Potemkin, in fact no real individuals. Courage here isn't a human trait, but an idea begin embodied in a class. Potemkin ends triumphantly as history itself will. The other ships of the Czar's Navy refuse to fire on their brother sailors. And as the prow of the Potemkin cuts through the water towards freedom one shares in the exultation...
...give things to the British Museum. In the past two years, the squat Greek Revival treasure house on London's Great Russell Street has acquired, among other things, a 5,000-year-old porphyry frog from Egypt, a $1,000,000 collection of historical playing cards, the prow of a Viking ship, some rare 17th century music manuscripts, original letters of Kipling and Yeats, a mosaic pavement from ancient Rome-not to mention a copy of every book published in Great Britain...