Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admit it. The contrived, never-say-die plot of The Beautiful Life is simply a device to move his characters through the inner circle. Exclusive restaurants and discotheques, the Plaza, "molto snob" boutiques and hair salons, Parke-Bernet, Sutton Place, a round of Capotesque parties, and assorted Upper East Side bedrooms...
...walk-on parts in later books as a sophisticated, droll, despairing alcoholic, he appears as a wry, dry, still witty private working as a waiter in an officers' mess at a divisional headquarters in Northern Ireland. Here, as in other scenes, the denizens of Powell's world-upper-class intelligentsia with outposts in the City, the aristocracy and in the upper bohemia of the theater, journalism, painting and music-find their highly contoured personalities flattened into military shape...
...Frank Beal, then secretary of the Community Council of New York, as a tennis substitute for the city's playgrounds. It never caught on in the city, but since 1928, when the first paddle-tennis court was built in Scarsdale, N.Y., the game has been spreading in upper-class suburbs, is now played as far south as Washington and as far west as Minneapolis...
Five minutes later defenseman Bob Carr aimed a 35-footer into the upper left corner for a 2-0 lead. Carr faked a shot twice and used a screen by Pete Waldinger to set up his fourth goal in the last four games...
Ironically, two more of nature's mistakes kept Betty going. There were two small holes in the septum (wall) between the two upper chambers of her heart, allowing partly oxygenated blood to pass through. And the ductus arteriosus, which supplies a normal and necessary connection between aorta and pulmonary artery during a baby's life in the womb, did not close as it should have after Betty's birth. This also helped to make partly oxygenated blood available to her faltering circulation...