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Walsrus was sitting behind the wooden desk in the front part of the office. Before the partitions had fallen, the garage had been divided into a front part, a mimeograph part, a phone part, and a storage part in the back. There was a winding stairway that led to the basement, the scene of all important group meetings...
...skirt. Courreges had a model roar up to the footlights in a minicar with a Plexiglas dome, and presented another wearing pingpong balls pasted on her oversized sunglasses. Cecil Beaton sketched. Lauren Bacall applauded. Katharine Hepburn hid out from photographers. Coco Chanel curled up on the salon stairway while her collection was shown and coolly surveyed the crush below. But then Chanel has been around long enough to know that nothing very extraordinary was going on. Nothing but the Paris fall fashion showings-and the first glimpse of the season's changes...
BLOBBING DAMPLY up the grand stairway of the Agassiz Theatre, to keep his appointment with Timothy Mayer's masterful staging of Jesus (A Passion Play for Cambridge), this reviewer passed by Peter W. Johnson--a Technical Director qualified to retire the title--locked in brief colloquy with a bearded minion. A conversation was overheard. Quoth the minion: "There are no more weights." Replied Johnson: "Well...use anything...
...GLAZIER lives in a cramped single room on the fifth floor of Kirkland House. When I first went puffing up the narrow stairway to see him, I found a plastic dime-store sign on his door that read in mock-heroic, mock-executive terms "Kenneth M. Glazier." Above the sign, a little jingle about Great men from a Chinese fortune cookie was pasted. When I entered the room to arrange an interview, he tried to pawn off his old furniture on me. And when the first interview had been set up, he cancelled it in order to take a bartending...
Yadin plans to clear out the shaft, install guard railings on the stairway and restore the entire waterworks system. 'We will not need the water for siege periods," says the soldier-archaeologist confidently, "but it will come in handy for tourists and visitors...