Word: weddings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere is invariably one of warmth, and the architectural scale is everywhere measured by human dimensions. Architect Ulrich Franzen is a master of the broken line and the ingratiating curve. Nothing is rigid and antiseptic. Masculinity and femininity thrust, parry, yield and wed in a superlative marriage of craft and art. The main theater itself, a semicircular urn of intimacy seating 798, is a kind of womb with seats. Decked out in soft brown and nuzzling together like cattle, the rows of theater seats are concentrated reminders that the playgoer is in an edifice indigenous to the Southwest, a vivid...
LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS. Four diverting playlets about love, sex and marriage. While not overly witty or wise, they foam with gentle laughter. Richard Castellano is superbly sad and funny as a long-wed father contemplating the wreck of his son's marriage...
...more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated 1,500 navigational snags, but boatmen still grumbled that the river's "bottom is too near its top." By the 1870s, the snags, sandbars and erratic flow were stifling traffic along the Arkansas, and when rails spanned...
Determined, as Reportér Magazine Editor Stanislav Budin described it, to "wed freedom and Communism," the press probed into every part of Czech life. It examined housing problems, urged a return to limited free enterprise, promoted the democratic reforms sought by Dubček and his liberals...
...Roman Catholic hospital in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pa., and the divorced mother of three children. In so doing, he became the highest ranking ecclesiastic of the 350 or so priests who have left the Catholic Church in the U.S. within the last two years in order to wed...