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...Irish bricklayer grown wealthy as a contractor, certainly did not qualify as aristocrats in Philadelphia. Nor did Grace, the princess of an amusement park, ever qualify as a Main Line aristocrat there despite her popularity in the city. But she behaved like a lady, and thus in Holl wood she seemed not quite real, not quite an illusion. The picnic scene with Gary Grant from To Catch a Thief-worked because this flickering imbalance of perception carried over to the screen. It seemed deliciously shocking (but deliciously believable) that there were breasts and legs beneath her summer frock...
...problems in the gym grew worse--the squash court's wood floors darkening and rotting as a result of moisture--the original contractors assured Radcliffe, which owns the building, that the problems were not serious...
...Tapio Wirkkala (1946-47) are another example of this. Wirkkala's artistic craft ennobles ordinary glass. It turns an industrial material into a living one. The same is true of Denmark's Finn Juhl's famous armchair of 1945 and, for that matter, all Danish-modern wood furniture. The sensuous, sculptural shapes seem to flow into one organic unit...
...would last one year, let alone a hundred. But the then Harvard junior was concerned about the $150 tuition the College charged and wanted to find some way to combat what he and the other students felt were exorbitant prices charged by Harvard Square merchants for books and wood Supported strongly by the Crimson and the nowdefur 'Echo, as well as several influential faculty members, Kip and four of his classmates enlisted about 400 Harvard-affiliated persons to invest in the cooperative at two dollars a head and opened the "Society"--the nickname, "Coop," didn't catch on for several...
...real lake for a backdrop and real stars are a twinkle in God's Own Cyclorama. The greens that fill the stage are genuine trees, shrubs and grass, implanted on a gently rolling surface that could not be more naturalistic if someone had dug up a wood near Athens and shipped it to Manhattan C.O.D. Unlike the more self-conscious conceits that have been lavished on this most visually entrancing of Shakespeare's works, Heidi Landesman's scenery charms through its understated appropriateness...