Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moisture in the air makes you swollen with water too. Your arms and legs seem heavy and bloated, but it is a pleasure to sweat in this weather. Your body is covered with a sheen of sweat, and when a breeze comes by (a breeze that has made it all the way to Cambridge from the sea, all the way through Boston), it washes over the sweat and cools you off. It is almost as good as when you come out of the bathroom still wet from the shower...
...Bard to Central Park. Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, plays alternate evenings through Aug. 2. Artistic Director Gerald Freedman guides Stacy Keach as the incorrigible Falstaff and Sam Waterston as the slumming Prince Hal. Then Romeo and Juliet moves into the Delacorte Theater on Aug. 7, with Martin Sheen and Susan MacArthur in the title roles...
...lofty priest. The son of a Basque fisherman, Balenciaga created a legend rich in grace and splendor; elegant women-the Duchess of Windsor, Barbara Hutton, Queen Fabiola-cloaked themselves in the simple yet sumptuous designs that were his trademark. Thus the entire fashion world lost some of its sheen last week at the news that the House of Balenciaga is closing. Some said he is simply bored; others claimed that his disdain for "commercialism" and contemporary styles had caused business to decline. Whatever the reason, it does not diminish the loss. Said Coco Chanel: "The others are drafts...
Unruffled Sheen. In a competition against 12 other groups, they did it. Then, instead of socking away the $20,000 prize money, they used part of it to commission a new work by U.S. Composer Leon Kirchner. His effort, a tense, tightly outlined piece enhanced by electronic sounds, won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Last fall the Beaux-Arts added stability to its growing reputation by moving into professorial chairs as quartet-in-residence at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Today, it stands in the select ranks of secure year-round ensembles that have proved that chamber music...
...works by Beethoven, Ives and Karl Korte, and played them with an ease and elegance rare among American chamber- music makers. Where most native groups feature a sharp-edged attack that glitters most brightly m contemporary music, the Beaux-Arts glides throughout the reper tory with a silken, unruffled sheen and a cozy, old-world tonal blend...