Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEAD. Shakespeare's duo may have been swinging students on the Wittenberg campus, but when Tom Stoppard tosses them into the midst of the intrigants of Elsinore, they seem two poor sophomores being hazed by a malevolent fraternity. The skillful dramatic interplay between Brian Murray and John Wood provokes laughter even as it evokes compassion...
...Whitney Museum with an immense sausage-shaped bubble of clear vinyl that wallowed about an entire, blue-spotlit room. Even Louise Nevelson, the Marianne Moore of modern American sculpture, has won new fans with a current exhibit consisting of the famed Nevelson wall constructions done no longer in wood but in clear Plexiglas...
Simpler & Livelier. "Most living rooms are a total disaster because they are not used-they were meant to be looked at," says San Francisco Decorator Michael Taylor. Taylor spent a year transforming San Francisco Socialite Mrs. Davies Lewis' drawing room from a masculine retreat with wood-paneled walls and bookcases (the taste of the former occupant) into an elegant, eclectic ensemble. "It is more European than San Franciscan, which is what I wanted," says Mrs. Lewis, who has used Taylor twice before, jokes that she agrees with Taylor on all but one matter. "I don't usually like...
...Wild Side. Floors? Wall-to-wall carpeting, once a status symbol, is giving way to area rugs, which allow polished wood floors to show handsomely, as in Decorator Anthony Hail's own San Francisco studio. Walls? The trend is away from stark, white-painted plaster and toward colors and textures. Decorator Frank Austin used burlap in Actress Polly Bergen's Beverly Hills living room; Decorator Arthur Elrod specified walnut wood and marble for Film Financier Eugene Klein's hilltop home near...
...best written and funniest piece in the issue, aside from the Poonies' Evelyn Wood ad on the inside back cover, is Sidney P. Lee's parody of a spy story. Lee brings laughs because he is unpredictably unLampoon, and therefore not above a well-placed "Horse-piss...