Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization, a status system makes its presence felt. A Silver Springs, Md., housewife at the housing booth said that people who arrive in buses are placed in "institutions" (i. e., gymnasium floors); while those who come individually are more likely to get spaces in private homes. Not that there are a lot of these...
Passion for Privacy. Numerous parallels between Antoine and his creator have invited suggestions that this is a strongly autobiographical play. The last person likely to shed light on this question is Anouilh himself. At 59, looking like an aging bank clerk, with blank blue eyes behind silver-rimmed spectacles, he makes a fetish of privacy. It was three years before the world knew that he had divorced and remarried in 1953; his telephone numbers are unlisted and frequently change; and to keep his whereabouts secret, he shuttles back and forth between an apartment in Paris, a suburban house, a place...
Interceptions like that one result in special recognition from the defensive coaches. too. A defensive player who makes an interception. scores a touch-down, or makes an exceptional play receives a small silver or black football ??a touchdown) to put on his helmet...
...between Deco and Moderne. From 1918 to 1925, when Paris held a mammoth International Exposition of Decorative Arts, the style was more Deco, which he defines as graceful, rococo and curvilinear. From 1925 until 1939, the look modified into Moderne, which was chunkier and more geometric, as in a silver tea service designed by Britain's Charles Boyton. In Winter's living room, a black and gold painted panel for a post-office frieze by Lee Lawrie, the artist who designed many bas-reliefs for Rockefeller Center, exemplifies the WPA mood militant of Moderne...
...items will soar. In some respects, they have less to worry about than did fanciers of Art Nouveau. Because so many of its designs were originally intended for mass production, Art Deco has proved singularly easy to copy. Manhattan's fashion industry has already begun to produce chunky, silver-and-jade Art Deco earrings, belts and pins. Some of the best Art Deco can be enjoyed by any devotee, without cost, simply by contemplating the elevator doors, grilles and mailboxes of such structures as Manhattan's Chrysler Building...