Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a brief final splash, the waters have closed over the head of the 87th Congress, and it passes unmourned. It merits no eulogies, and will receive none...
Both lakemaking companies are beginning to receive inquiries and orders from dry spots as far afield as Australia and Trinidad. Biggest splash so far has been Kepner's 20-acre lake at California City, which was completed last year at a cost of $45,000; Palco is currently negotiating for two other California lakes of 80 to 100 acres each...
Sculptress Nevelson made her first real splash four years ago with sinister black-massed woodworks, given such titles as Moon Dial and Cathedral in the Sky. She denies that she is presently in a gold period, although most of her work, after being lacquered with several coats to seal the wood, is lavishly spray-bombed with a metallic product called Spray-O-Namel...
...Yukon-4,700 miles from the Great White Way-for an eight-week run of Foxy, a Gold Rush version of Ben Jonson's Volpone. The musical comedy, timed to premiere with the beginning of Dawson City's Gold Rush Festival, launched the event with a splash. At the Palace Grand Theater, where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. once played to Klondike sourdoughs, British Comedienne Bea Lillie officially opened the festival, later joined an 18-carat audience to give the troupe a wild standing ovation. "It was tremendous," said Lahr. But the critics thought that the nugget needed some polishing...
Because of an eleventh-hour scramble, last week's opening splash in Hartford went somewhat kerplunk. First program was the movie version of Sunrise at Campobello (viewing price: $1), which has already made the rounds of the country's movie theaters and is well along on its journey from Broadway's Palace to The Late Show. Other first-week films include One-Eyed Jacks, Splendor in the Grass and Breakfast at Tiffany's. But programming should improve. Hartford's pay viewers will get a chance to see Warner Brothers' still unreleased The Music...