Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THAT TIME it was summer, and the room was stifling, but by the last time I went to see Barrie I used to come in and stand directly in front of his tiny gas heater until he turned on the stove as well. Then I would sit down in his old cloth armchair--from Portobello Road?--with a pillow over my knees to keep them warm...
...chairs, numerous pots and pans. Said CBS-TV Producer Don Hewitt, who was vacationing on Nassau and happened to see part of the move: "It didn't look like a rich man's stuff. It looked like Archie Bunker's stuff. There was an old electric stove and electric heater and this sort of cheap-looking vinyl couch...
...worker is single, he may share a flat with a factory colleague, and pay perhaps 5 yuan a month in rent. The apartment will be heated with a coal stove, if at all; the privy is outside. If he has a wife and child, a worker is eligible to move into one of the vast new government-built apartment complexes, complete with gardens and nearby day nurseries. Largely because the government controls migration to the cities, China does not have an acute urban housing shortage. A newly married couple, for example, can obtain a place to live in three...
...FORTHCOMING OPERA "LORD BYRON" (to be given its world premiere in April by Manhattan's Juilliard School): "The world is full of orchestration operas-everything down to and including the kitchen stove, and then the singers have to yelp above it. Mine is a singing opera. I like the words and rather wanted them heard. Byron is the hero and the villain both. Byron slept with everybody around. He was, don't forget it, a lord, a millionaire, a genius and a beauty. And with all that, he had to misbehave every day to cut himself down...
...Bateau Lavoir, a studio building in Rue Ravignan. "No one," Kahnweiler recalls, "could ever imagine the poverty, the deplorable misery of those studios. The wallpaper hung in tatters from the unplastered walls. There was dust on the drawings and rolled-up canvases on the caved-in couch. Beside the stove was a kind of mountain of piled-up lava, which was ashes. It was unspeakable...