Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple of packages.'" Jones related McKeon's offer just as Wagner had, adding: "I said, 'It hardly seems to be worthwhile. Anything you said is of no interest to me.' " Using a commission-provided scale drawing of the meeting site, complete down to the sofa pillows, Jones described where each of the participants had sat. He recalled that McKeon had perched on a radiator, which moved Grumet to inquire: "Was this the hot seat...
...outgoing wench-charmer. Julie is miserly of person and property. She locks up salami in a wall safe, sets rattraps to maim any hand that gropes under the sofa for the hidden vodka, and religiously snaps off lights. Lou breaks into the salami safe and religiously snaps on lights. After this epic depiction of character, Playwright Slade can do nothing but tuck the twosome...
...mantelpiece of the highceilinged drawing room in London stood a bronze minotaur by Sculptor-Painter Michael Ayrton. On the walls hung two early canvases by Sidney Nolan. Novelist C. P. Snow leaned forward on the edge of a sofa, planted his elbows on his knees and lit a Senior Service...
...stooping after a while become obvious devices, but still Mrs. Roger has an excellent sense of timing, and her Grandma is thoroughly likable. Jean Comstock turns in a creditable performance as Mrs. Barker. Alexander Pertzoff's set is obviously the one Albee intended for his play. The frankfurter sofa, the hamburger easy chair, and the malted milk end table are wonderfully ingenious and seem perfectly natural...
...retires" to the seaside resort of Periperi, with silver hair, splendiferous uniforms, and an inexhaustible fund of nautical whoppers ranging from heroic shipwreck to Arab dancers of more than Oriental splendor in bed. One fine day Vasco is asked to take command of a real ship. Unrattled, the sofa salt mounts the bridge, delegates all authority to the chief mate-until a moment arrives when he cannot escape command. But the very elements conspire to make him a hero and to prove a moral of sorts about the nature of man's dreams...