Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Producer Alexander Cohen still remembers with awe when Nichols called him one night to rage: "This theater is in total darkness!" One of the 30 lamps on the balcony rail was flickering. Saint Subber's marrow freezes when he remembers Nichols' insistence that The Odd Couple set be repainted 24 hours before opening. When he cast Barefoot, Nichols was even more demanding. "Mike insisted on getting a real telephone man or a taxicab driver to play the telephone man," recalls Subber. "I thought: this has to be a put-on. But I ended up getting a cab driver?...
...They treated us like kings, czars, queens!" exclaimed Charlotte Ford Niarchos, entranced by the Russians' hospitality toward her father, Henry Ford II, and his family. "I came thin as a rail," said Henry's wife Christina. "They all thought I was sick. I gained five pounds, could hardly get into my clothes...
...exhibition itself reinforces this feeling of distance from the twentieth century by having so many pieces of actual furniture and whole rooms where you can stick your head over the rail into nineteenth century atmosphere. The material presence of the decoration-the glass, the silk, the gold knick-knacks-settles the paintings in history...
...John F. Schwartz, then president of General Motors, said "Certainly, it is important that in our planning for the future we seek improved mass transit. Every large city needs it; but it is a serious mistake to assume that planning for better urban transportation is a matter of choosing rail over road, public carrier over private car. Sound planning involves a proper balance, the right mix; for no one mode of travel can serve all the needs for mobility in a modern city...
...that time, he said "We are convinced that there is expanding need for public transportation including both bus and rail systems. We are anxious to cooperate in all possible ways with federal state and local officials in their efforts to meet this need. We encourage the enactment of the urban mass transportation assistance legislation...