Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snare drums roll. Spotlights lattice the darkness and zero in on a trim brunette and a dangling hook. She thrusts the hook into a ring knotted in her hair, and while spectators watch in disbelief the rope tautens, and slowly she is lifted up and up through the elephant-scented air until she is dangling 73 ft. high. Then she calmly starts juggling three pastel Indian clubs, all the while hanging by her hair...
Inflation has also helped bring to Eu rope that old American problem: the servant shortage. Most maids have been lured into the higher-paying factories, and those who remain play off one employer against the other. Result: their wages have shot up 50-100% in the past five years. A sleep-in servant now pockets up to $100 a month in Italy and Germany. When they are discontented with their wages, some European maids have a sly way of hinting for a raise: they simply start breaking the dishes...
Viewers will not find much that is traditionalist; these are modernists concerned basically with materials, which may be tin cans, rope or boards for painting, teak and hollowed iron for sculpture. But their new language still bears the accent of their native culture. Through March...
...well as spectacle; when her spear carriers enter, it is with a flash of steel and a purpose. She knows all the languages of opera, knows music so well that she often conducts. She pursues authenticity and realism to the point of demanding old chains instead of new rope on an obscure drawbridge, and the sum of her interests gives even a bizarre tale such as 1 Puritani the dignity of at least passing plausibility...
...Germany, the nagging question still remained. "I think they feel in Moscow the same way we do," said one Air Force officer. "If they could have reached out and put their hands over that damn fool's gun, they would have. And if we could have thrown a rope up in the air and pulled those poor guys back, we would have...