Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best-known and most widely copied chair was designed for the Kabarett Fledermaus (1907), a club by and for the avant-garde. The regularity of its limbs and parts is strict, but as with all the best Wiener Werkstatte work, severity is not carried too far. Six wood spheres, billiard ball-size, tucked under each arm and atop each leg, are a perfect ornamental gesture, precise and machined but irrational...
...Really? It's that time of year again, where the pseudonym finally faces his fans, the once-derided movie stars, and various and sundry bill collectors. That wasn't you in the sable coat I saw coming out of the Billiard Room...
...month, Park said, he planned to expand his business interests with a one-hour photograph-processing establishment near the billiard hall. He had just purchased a $41,000 French-made processing machine. His only regret, he said, was that he had to make a 20% down payment; if he had been in the U.S. longer, he could have qualified for the financing with only 10% down. These little businesses, Park explained, were just stepping-stones toward getting into high-tech research -- analytical chemistry, immunology, protein chemistry, cell biology, molecular biology -- with Korean scientists as partners...
...Harvard of 50 years ago was nowhere near as different from the Harvard of today as the outside world then was from that of today. At Harvard we learned the history of Western Europe from Frisky Merriman, always impeccably dressed with a carnation in his button-hole and a billiard cue in his hand serving as a pointer. We learned about paintings from George Edgell of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and we produced foul-smelling compounds in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory. In fact, we learned a great many things from many professors but possibly more from our friends...
...rape and execution, of victims being dropped from helicopters, of the dreaded night-time knock on the door. One citizen last week recalled how he had won a colonel's admiration by surviving a five- hour torture session; another remembered seeing a presidential press secretary stretched out on a billiard table with electric wires attached to his mouth and toes. Former President Alejandro Lanusse told of how he had once reproached a police officer for failing to report the discovery of a body. "Don't forget, General," the man had responded, "more than 8,000 bodies have been thrown...