Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millionaire art collectors. The results at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries last week staggered even old-hand auctioneers. The first night, bids for paintings rolled up an alltime high of $1,708,500.* Total for the three-day auction: $2,221,355, a sum that blew the roof right off the rising art market...
Teresa Wright does as much with the role of Cora as nearly anyone could. Pat Hingle acts Rubin as solidly as he did Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Eileen Heckart, as Lottie, impresses many people as magnificent--a loosely jointed, many-toned caricature actress a la Roz Russel. She is often most amusing, often overdone. As a friend of Reenie's, Evans Evans is wacky, flappery, and fun, except in her emotional scene, where she seems hollow...
With three of its characters evoking Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, the play has also the three-pronged subject matter of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. An elderly, genteelly despotic Southern mother has badly hurt her daughter and her son-the daughter is an all-tied-up-in-knots old maid; the son a psychotically bitter, frustrated writer. The son has in turn badly hurt the simple girl (Anne Baxter) who twice, from sheer sexual compulsion, became his unhappy wife. Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect...
...assumed that most of its families were renters. It now checks prices of new houses, interest rates on mortgages and home improvements. But it ignores the do-it-yourself trend, assumes that labor is hired at union wages to paint the dining room, sand the floors or reshingle the roof. Other changes in the index do not reflect higher prices, but higher standards of living. The index now includes dinners out, hotel and motel rates on vacation trips, the expense of keeping more informal clothes (in addition to work clothes and Sunday best), plus outlay for sports equipment, whisky...
Comstock Hall, Radcliffe's newest dormitory, is a month behind its building schedule, President Wilbur K. Jordan of Radcliffe has disclosed. He indicated that one month of good weather will be necessary to get the dorm under roof before winter sets...