Word: ribboners
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...often a fighting word in the theater, can also have its savory delights. Two blue-ribbon samples: Mickey Rooney and the late George M. Cohan, Broadway's celebrated Jack-of-all-theatrics. Last week, serving up a double helping, NBC presented Rooney as Cohan in Mr. Broadway, a 90-minute biographical spectacular with all the trimmings...
...prancing white stallion (loaned from a local livery stable), decked in the soaring wings of Pegasus and tied to a gigantic dictionary, chomped the red apple which adorned the red ribbon which separated the eager onlookers from the entrance...
...long-awaited Massachusetts Turnpike was officially opened yesterday as Governor Furcolo snipped the usual ribbon to put 123 mile route into actual use for New England motorists...
...Paris. Though Hartung, at his father's insistence, continued his academic art training, dabbling in mathematics on the side, he had by 1922 already stumbled on the secret of letting the line speak for itself. Set against monochrome backgrounds, it could float as joyously as a ribbon on a June breeze, take on the tension of coiled springs, jam up in anger, ascend in triumph or struggle behind the heavy, heavy black grillwork of despair. But for decades Hartung's new-found language spoke only to himself and a few fellow artists. Between 1922 and 1946 he sold...
...dressmaker, Rose Bertin, maintained Paris' reputation for extravagant whims, and after the Revolution, aristocratic ladies carried on with the macabre fancy of dressing 'àa la victime,' their hair shorn off as in preparation for the guillotine and their necks bound by a thin red ribbon to simulate the cut of the knife. Trade thrived, and soon Louis' chief minister was declaring: "French fashions are to France what the mines of Peru are to Spain...