Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Museum Trips" from a forthcoming book by Carl Nagin is a short, funny story about a visit to the Fogg. In the Modern Art Room Rocko and the Narrator meet an employee who "wouldn't givya a nickel" for the $70,000 Brancusi wood sculpture Caryatid, which he calls Mrs. Murphy's Bedpost. He calls a Jackson Pollack "that horror over there" and says it was hung on its side last month, but he likes Olitski's Ariosto's Kiss because the "painting seems to move." They visit the Persian Rug Room twice, but the rugs are on the wall...
Harvard's sailing club easily won both the Big Three Championship on the Charles River and the Jack Wood Trophy in Providence this weekend. In two other weekend regattas, the Crimson was third...
...Crimson won the Wood Trophy, a co-skippered event with two varsity crews, a junior varsity crew, and a freshman crew, yesterday, M.I.T. and Coast Guard finished second with 82 points, 13 more than Harvard. Brown and Dartmonth were fourth and fifth...
...would take from Preston Sturges, the American director whose Sullivan's Travels and Hail, the Conquering Hero are full of the kind of zaniness that abounds in Swope . Other favorite movies of Downey's are Varda's Le Bouheur, Losey's Servant, Titicut Follies, Citizen Kane, the Marx Brothers/Sam Wood's Night at the Opera, Kazan's On the Waterfront, Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes, and Truffaut's Jules...
...Writers Paul Mazursky (who also directed) and Larry Tucker (who produced), satire is more often a matter of condescension than wit. These swimming-pool Swifts smugly mock a situation that they simultaneously exploit. Bob (Robert Gulp) is a documentary-film maker who, after telling his wife Carol (Natalie Wood) that he has had a casual affair with another woman, listens with surprised gratification as she begs, "Let me hear about it again. I feel closer to you than I ever have in my whole life." Their two best friends, Ted (Elliott Gould) and Alice (Dyan Cannon), after being...