Word: stools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle stations, lit by little more than the flicker of eight TV monitoring screens. Director Harry Coyle, 35, an ex-bomber pilot who, like most of the others in the mobile unit, is a veteran of TV's infancy, chain-smoked from his perch on a high stool, his eyes darting back and forth. Crammed in front of him and to his left stood screens flashing four different views of the game, plus a fifth monitor linked to another camera focused on cards bearing players' names. Above this cluster of screens hung two more: one showed the picture...
Choice of Objects. Like most sculptors, Smith takes ordinary elements of transitory existence, records them in lasting material. What is different is Smith's choice of objects to preserve. The Sitting Printer, for example, is made from the back of an oak chair, a stool seat for a head and a typesetter's box, which Smith inherited when he took over another artist's studio, cast separately in bronze and then welded together. Agricola IX is one of a series Smith has done using bits of discarded farm implements, including parts from an abandoned buggy shop...
...Mikoyan's favorite pastimes was preparing New Year's gifts, and deciding what to give whom. Some typical decisions of those days: for Stalin, a chocolate jack boot; for Molotov, a chocolate stool; for Khrushchev, a chocolate bottle; for Malenkov, a chocolate table; for Beria, a chocolate pistol. An excellent cook who likes to serve Armenian fare with bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master...
Read with interest your June 3 article concerning Protestants and the Church of Scotland in the early 17th century. Jenny Geddes threw that "cutty stool" towards the head of my distant, illustrious relative, Dean James Hanna, who was reading the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. It was July 23, 1637, and the people in St. Giles excitedly awaited the service book, which had been revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass...
...Windgassen ("You're practically dead. You can hardly talk, let alone sing"). On opening night last week, a big share of the applause went to Soprano Nilsson, who was compared to the great Kirsten Flagstad. But the star of the occasion was Rodzinski himself. Perched on a high stool in the pit, he mimed every emotion, sprang up repeatedly to sustain notes with sure baton sweeps. During breaks in the four-hour, 50-minute evening he changed dripping shirts, gave himself an alcohol rub, gulped