Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upper-terrace garden of the Museum of Modern Art, Levine and a cadre of workmen had constructed something called The Star Garden. At the corners of an open 40-ft.-square area were four separate oblong bubbles, each 7 ft. high, and 16 ft. on each side, made of a clear, fire-retardant plastic. The visitor was invited to walk between instead of around these bubbles. The process was supposed to induce "giddiness" and "weightlessness," which .in turn would make the viewer feel like a star in outer space...
...orchestra rarely got below a non-commital mezzo volume which sapped the climaxes of their drama and surprise. The typically aloof wind section was adamantly sharp throughout, as if they were under no obligation to listen to the strings. In spite of difficulty in the high register, the upper strings produced a rich sound when they decided to play together as a section. But in their big moment, at the beginning of the third movement, the 'cellos didn't soar--they wilted...
...More. Once the presidential elections are completed, along with upper house elections to be held on Sept. 1 as well, only one more election will remain to complete South Viet Nam's transition to civilian rule. That election, for the lower house, will take place on Oct. 1. Gracing the October roster of candidates may well be Mme. Nguyen Ky, onetime airline stewardess known as "the beauty of Air Viet Nam," who recently has confided to friends that she would not mind at all being a lady Congressman...
...view has soured over the years, and certain feelings can be inferred from his new film. Chaplin can neither take comfort in the security of old age or have faith in youth. The society girl with whom Brando dances is self-centered and vapid, a Marxist parody of upper class Capitalism. Her continual references to the beliefs of her father imply that she has been corrupted by Chaplin's low generation. In a parallel scene, old Miss Gaulswallow (Margaret Rutherford) is shown as equally useless, having partially retreated into a senile second childhood...
...unions contend that the possibility of such legislation, and even the present Railway Labor Act, gives management the upper hand. "If the government instead lets the railroad management know, firmly and unmistakably, that the railroad workers' right to strike is not going to be abolished, then management would have made a fair offer and this dispute would be settled: now," a union spokesman said last week...