Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lecturing the jury like an amiable college professor, West emphasized the traumatic effects of Patty's kidnaping. At one time, said West, Patty was a girl "whose most important preoccupations" were minor doubts about her upcoming marriage and worries about selecting a silver pattern. Then she was abducted from her own apartment and confined in tiny closets for 57 days. The change, said West, "was about as violent a transition as I have ever seen...
Manifestations, Arthur Mitchell's first new ballet in five years, was the choreographic focal point on opening night. Under a canopy of stars in a silver Eden, Eve sprang from the stomach of Adam, reclining on aluminum mounds. The audience gasped with pleasure as tiny Susan Lovelle unfolded on point while Homer Bryant turned her around slowly on one leg like a potter molding clay on his wheel. But it was willowy Lydia Abarca, a dancer of pristine lyricism, and Paul Russell, all crackling magnetic energy, who were the undisputed stars of the evening. In William Dollar...
Hence the big machines, like The Hay Wain. Hence, too, an unfamiliar - be cause privately owned - masterpiece, Salisbury Cathedral, from the Meadows, c. 1831. In the afterstorm light, the spire and facade of the cathedral show silver against slate roof, and the clouds are like marble. The cathedral sits inside the rainbow's curve as though in a proscenium arch. Then one sees how every element (building, rainbow, sky, the tree on the left and the cart) is linked by one startling device: the tree, turning on the hub of the cartwheel like an immense brush, seems to have...
...cuddle. That's when Mego International, makers of Batman, Robin and Star Trek dolls, will launch a $1 million ad campaign to market 12½-in. versions of Sonny and Cher to the moppet set. The Sonny doll will come with a twelve-piece wardrobe (including a sparkling silver lame jumpsuit), while the little Cher will have 32 costumes modeled after the tall one's own Bob Mackie creations. The Cher doll "looks just like me," says the singer happily, noting that her look-alike will come complete with the notorious navel and knee-length hair...
...surgical precision on courses so icy that only 19 of 42 starters finished both runs. Said Mittermaier: "I thought the tracks were just beautiful." After the race, she needed an escort of 20 policemen to get her through the crowd. The crush was even worse when she won a silver in the giant slalom...