Word: starlite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starlit stillness of 5:30 a.m., a lonely New York policeman stamped his feet and tried to beat off the chill as he stood watch outside Ike Eisenhower's upper Manhattan residence at 60 Morningside Drive. A black Cadillac limousine rolled through the empty streets and pulled up at the curb. Two U.S. Secret Service men got out. One walked up to the cop, chatted with him and drew him away from the door. The other slipped inside. A moment later, with the cop's back turned, a quick striding man, with his felt hat drawn...
...dark-haloed Judas, a grey, long-armed figure of Christ on the Cross, a group of stiff, formalized saints seated at a round table for the Last Supper. Wrote Critic John Russell in the Sunday Times: it "is not the turbulent board meeting of Leonardesque tradition, but a starlit gathering of saintly rustics. [The window's qualities] put it at once in the company of the great European windows...
...Starlit Time (Sun. 6 p.m., Du Mont). First of a new musical revue series...