Word: ustinov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the city of Nottingham financed a new arts center, "the arts became both popular and commercial," Ustinov said. "Increased interest on the part of the city seemed to infuse the arts with a new spirit, a reverence -- and the new facility was so popular that it did not ultimately cost the city more than 100 pounds a year...
...Peter Ustinov, British playwright-actor-director-producer, told a Winthrop House audience of about 500 last night that the federal government should spend more money on the arts...
...State subsidies of the arts seem to be anathema in the United States," Ustinov said, "but in Europe, the prevailing attitude seems to be that the money is welcome, whatever the source...
...moves with the grace of a Watusi dancer?or a high-fashion model. Her lips are thin and subtle, her nose fine, her eyes a cool matte blue. There is something royal in her bearing and at the same time something girlish. The effect is delightfully incongruous. Says Peter Ustinov: "She's a mixture of Harper's bizarre and church bazaar." She is a mod goddess, Eleanor of Aquitaine in a miniskirt...
Lynn, on the contrary, looks like a hockey star trying to look like a movie star. She seems to be bigger than Vanessa and to have more arms and legs?quite nice legs that somehow look sexy even though they are semaphorically knock-kneed. Lynn, continues Ustinov, "gives the impression of knocking things down by mistake because she doesn't know her tail is wagging." She has a kewpie-doll face countersunk in a strawberry-blonde mane; she wears what looks like fluorescent face powder; and she sometimes paints her lower lashes, Twiggy-style, so far below the natural eyeline...