Word: doorknobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebuffs her suitor, telling him that she must repay the love and kindness of her surrogate father by being his companion and comforter. Tears in his own eyes, old Marigold proclaims the lovers man and wife with his blessing. Five years go by, when a tiny hand turns the doorknob of the cart door, followed by dark eyes and curly locks. "Grandfather," says the little girl. "She can speak!" cries Marigold, as "the happy and yet pitying tears fell rolling down [his] face...
Much the same could be said of Armitage's own work. Barrel-bodied shapes such as his Standing Figure (see cut), with stiff, sticklike legs and doorknob heads, could have been dug out of a slag pile or found beneath Pompeii buried in volcanic ash. They represent a recent departure for Armitage, who since 1952 has moved away from his flat, screenlike groupings, created figures in the round that won him a $1,000 sculptor's award at this year's Venice Biennale...
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 16--University of Nebraska authorities confirmed today it was not a bag of laundry found hanging from the doorknob of a sorority house here last week...
...According to the booklet, the most important problem in the young thing's life will be "How to Set Up Housekeeping at Vassar," and is thus the subject of Chapter 1. Warning the freshman that when she first arrives "the room looks BARE," it counsels that she "use one doorknob for support and think ahead to the close of the first few weeks when your room will assume its own personality, look homelike, and be the place in which you will live...
...four weeks Britain had conducted its scuffle-sized war in Oman with the on-again-off-again hesitation of a small boy who has tied one end of the string to his aching tooth, the other to the doorknob...