Word: closets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world in which the plumber is hero, being both "a craftsman and a necessity." A good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus hard on that hardy piece of English enamelware, the water closet. But at its best the new realism has the effect of a pint of bitter-tart proof that Englishmen can still face life with relish...
...spend with his wife and four children, putter in his rose garden. He spends evenings poring over work in the library of his twelve-room house in suburban Winnetka, Ill. His life has become almost as self-centered as Avery's on the contents of a secret closet in his Chicago office. The closet contains charts of the company and the U.S. economy. In Avery's time the projections all went down; now all the lines go sharply...
Arthur L. Kopit '59 has been awarded First Prize in the Adams House Play-writing Competition. His original play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, will open in the House next February...
...total autobiography. The list of her male conquests seems to stretch to infinity: lawyers, politicians, theatrical agents, Wall Street brokers, film magnates, judges, operatic tenors, Mexican wrestlers, French importers, chorus boys, casual diners in a restaurant. Readers may get the impression that lovers lurk under every bed, in every closet, behind every curtain. Some of them showered Mae with diamonds, emeralds and furs. Others gave more of themselves. Of a fellow named Ted, Mae sighs: "I had experienced other men who performed as ardent lovers, but never for a period of 15 hours." One suitor whom she discarded, says...
...David's older brother, is working on a plastics merger that requires David to merge with a sugar heiress, so he plans to divert Audrey with some love-making of his own. After Bogie slips into his Yale sweater, takes the uke and Rudy Vallee records out of the closet, and goes courting, he has to determine whether the beautiful nymph will spend the rest of her life regaling him with choruses of La Vie En Rose, or be packed off on the next boat to Paris. Happily, the obviousness of this decision doesn't slow down the pace...