Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protestors are not content with RGA modifications in the plan. "While the RGA amendments would bring the sign out rules just out of the Victorian Age, they can hardly be called liberal," one revolutionary declared...
...Europe in this one-man show, brings it to Broadway with much fresh material culled from Twain's writings. The casual format is that of one of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures when he was 70. The props are simple: a lectern, a Victorian chair, a pitcher of water, an omnipresent cigar from which Holbrook fires volleys of smoke like a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside his thunderbolts for cheroots...
Vivaldi & Cold Compress. Normally, Segal casts his models in sections, but for Ethel he wanted to try just two casts, the first from the neck down. "Take a natural position," Segal urged. Ethel plunked herself down on a secondhand green velvet Victorian couch, one leg tucked under the other. Segal proceeded to swab down her arms, dress, legs and boots with petroleum jelly. Then, carefully dipping squares of cheesecloth in plaster, he began molding them to her body...
...survived something I didn't think I was capable of, and I know it was worth it." Now the two figures-Robert Scull was cast in his sneakers without incident-are permanently placed in their Fifth Avenue apartment. Ethel wears her signature sunglasses; Robert stands proudly behind the Victorian couch. The Courreges boots? Says Ethel gaily: "Oh, somebody will find them inside in some other century. I forgive everyone, even though I did have welts for a week...
...Sale. Brooklyn Heights is one of the few neighborhoods that retains its distinction; its elegant Victorian houses across the bay from Manhattan have attracted many genteel bohemians. On the other hand, the fading Fort Greene Park area nearby recently lost one of its last distinguished citizens when Poetess Marianne Moore, 78, packed her tricorn hat and cape and, after 36 years in Brooklyn, moved to Manhattan. The swamps and old fishing villages in the further reaches have given way to modern subdivisions that most young couples rising in the world regard as mere way stations on the road to suburbia...