Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakespeare: Soul of an Age (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Sirs Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson narrate excerpts from a dozen Shakespeare plays while the camera roves the original settings (the Tower of London, the Forest of Arden, Hampton Court, etc.). Color...
...fact, some of Manhattan's speculative builders have plainly overreached themselves. Though buildings with names like Something East or Something Tower or Something House continue to push up like hoarfrost, and ask staggering prices (one recently built co-op on Fifth Avenue wants $129,940 for a seven-room apartment, and $18,576 a year maintenance), some of the tinder-traps-on-Hudson are finding it hard to land customers. Apartment seekers frequently are offered half a year's rent free as a lure. The older, more substantial buildings with high ceilings, soundproof walls, and proper entrance halls...
...left him. Desperate, he turns back to her, turns back against the flow of the river, turns back against the current of his life. When he finds his mistress he finds her changed. She has a new baby, a new life; he has nothing. Wearily he climbs the tower of the factory where once he worked, climbs to the height of his achievement as a man-and drops to his death...
Thus encouraged, Detroit went all-out at its auto show. Virtually every car and truck model produced by any U.S. automaker was on display. Fashion models slouched along a runway beside a 30-ft. revolving tower. Pontiac lined the doors of its Bonneville convertible with peacock feathers, and Dodge dressed up its truck display with two feminine "truck drivers" in short, short shorts. (Stock question from male showgoers: "Do you come with the truck?" Stock answer: "You couldn't afford...
...prose of David Stacton is like that of no other writer. It suggests a corridor in a dark Gothic tower, ill-lit by tapers, at one end of which a gong sounds incessantly. Stacton's gong clashes are malevolent aphorisms, asides spoken to Nemesis, hard little explanations of motive...