By the end of the Cold War, as many as 300 United States citizens were thought to have defected across the Iron Curtain for a variety of reasons – whether to escape criminal charges, for political reasons or because ( as the St. Petersburg Times put it ) " girl-hungry GI's tempted with seductive sirens, who usually desert the love-lorn soldier once he is across the border.

*" The Man Behind the Curtain: Political Strategy and Spin ", Janet Maslin, New York Times, June 4, 2007

* John Buchan's novel The Gap in the Curtain is similarly premised on a group of people being enabled to see, for a moment, an item in the Times newspaper from one year in the future.

* Peeking Behind the Curtain of Secrecy by the New York Times

Image: Yellow Curtain. jpg | The Yellow Curtain, 1915, Museum of Modern Art New York City

* A Peep Behind the Curtain, or The New Rehearsal ( 1767 )

In the late 1960s, two young Irish poets, Michael Smith ( b. 1942 ) and Trevor Joyce ( b. 1947 ) founded the New Writers Press publishing house and a journal called The Lace Curtain.

* Clarenville, Newfoundland is the home to The New Curtain Theatre Company, which operates as a year-round professional theatre based out of The Loft Theatre at the White Hills Ski Resort in Clarenville ( 2 hours west of St. John's ).

* Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1970.

The " common sewer " is now marked by Curtain Road, and the " ditch from the horse-pond " by New Inn Yard

The Theatre and Shakespeare's involvement with it are commemorated by two plaques on 86-90 Curtain Road, the building at the corner with New Inn Yard currently occupied by a Foxtons office.

White Hills is also home to The New Curtain Theatre Company at The Loft Theatre.

The Purple People Eaters were one of the most identifiable Front Fours in National Football League history, with the " Fearsome Foursome " of the Los Angeles Rams during the 1960s and early 1970s, the " Steel Curtain " of the Pittsburgh Steelers during the 1970s, and the " New York Sack Exchange " of the New York Jets during the 1980s.

The Lace Curtain was an occasional literary magazine founded and edited by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce under their New Writers Press imprint.

* Checklist of New Writers Press publications including full contributor listings for The Lace Curtain

Ficus microcarpa, also known as Chinese Banyan, Malayan Banyan, Indian Laurel or Curtain fig, is a banyan native in the range from Sri Lanka to India, southern China, the Malay Archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, Australia, and New Caledonia.

He has become active in both the Executive Service Corps of New England and the International Executive Service Corps, offering volunteer consulting in public relations and strategic planning services to nonprofit organizations and offering journalism training to television stations in newly democratized Bulgaria and Albania after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Several Maysles films document art projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude over a three-decade period, from 1974 when Christo's Valley Curtain was nominated for an Academy Award to 2005 when The Gates headlined New York's Tribeca Film Festival.

* In 2007, His novel The Open Curtain was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2006 by Time Out New York.

* Russian — Chagall, Marc ( worked mainly in France ): Pierrot with Umbrella ( 1926 ); Somov, Konstantin: Lady and Pierrot ( 1910 ), Curtain Design for Moscow Free Theater ( 1913 ), Italian Comedy ( 1914 ; two versions ); Suhaev, Vasilij, and Alexandre Yakovlev: Harlequin and Pierrot ( Self-Portraits of and by Suhaev and A. Yakovlev ) ( 1914 ); Tchelitchew, Pavel ( worked mainly in France and U. S. A .): Pierrot ( 1930 ).

The Royal Canadian Air Farce was recorded at the Curtain Club Theater in Richmond Hill for its first 5 seasons on radio, beginning in 1973.

* Curtain Up ( 1944 ), also published as Theater Shoes

* Ostrander, S. and Schroeder, L., Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, ( Prentice-Hall 1970 )

The Steelers ' " Steel Curtain " defense dominated the league, ranking third in fewest yards allowed ( 4, 019 ) and sending 8 of their 11 starters to the Pro Bowl: defensive linemen Joe Greene and L. C. Greenwood ; future Hall of Fame linebackers Jack Ham and Jack Lambert ; Andy Russell, the team's third starting linebacker ; future Hall of Fame defensive back Mel Blount ; and safeties Glen Edwards and Mike Wagner.

Their characters were from opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, though with his saturnine looks, Nimoy was predictably the villain, with Shatner playing a reluctant U. N. C. L. E.

* Italian: Sipario ( L ' ultima avventura di Poirot ) ( Curtain Last Adventure )

* Ostrander, S. and Schroeder, L., Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1970.

Jones, Jr. did create a one-man show he called " Curtain Calls ", in which he portrayed seven or eight Shakespearean characters accompanied by classical music, scheduling performances four weeks a year from 1933 to 1945.

With the collapse of the Iron Curtain since 1987, 3 million " Aussiedler " – ethnic Germans, mainly from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union – took advantage of Germany's law of return to leave the " land of their birth " for Germany.

In late 1987, a renewed vision for reaching Europe was borne, which led to the “ Love Europe ” outreaches that started in July 1989, just prior to the fall of the Iron Curtain.

In the documentary, " Behind the Curtain Part II " ( 2012 ), Jack Sholder, director of " The Hidden " ( 1987 ), had this to say about the film:

* Orange Curtain ( 2001, ISBN 0-7867-0876-X ) by John Shannon.

* Christie Davies, Jokes and Their Relation to Society ( 1998 ) ISBN 3-11-016104-4, Chapter 5: " Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage " ( about jokes from beyond the Iron Curtain )

* Behind the Moss Curtain and Other Great Savannah Stories ( ISBN 0-9724224-0-4 )

But hear Harrison E. Salisbury, former Moscow correspondent of The New York Times, and author of `` To Moscow -- And Beyond ''.

In answer to a New York Times query on what is fame ( `` Thoughts On Fame '', October 23, 1960 ), Carl said: `` Fame is a figment of a pigment.

The New York Times editorialist wondered just who would stop Mr. Lewis and make him write a book.

Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

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I found recently a very small article in the New York Times:

Newspaper advertising was mainly concentrated in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Eastern and Midwestern editions ) which averaged two prominent ads per month, and to a lesser degree the New York Herald Tribune and, for the west coast, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Pacific Coast edition ).

In addition to the regular schedule, advertisements were run for maximum impact in special editions of the New York Times, Boston Herald, American Banker, Electronic News and, for local promotion, the Providence Sunday Journal.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a great newspaper, the New York Times, on the occasion of a major change in its top executive command.

I am pleased to note that Mr. Sulzberger will continue to serve as chairman of the board of the New York Times.

Mr. Sulzberger's successor as publisher is Mr. Orvil E. Dryfoos, who is president of the New York Times Co., and who has been with the Times since 1942.

My heartiest congratulations go to their successors, Orvil E. Dryfoos and John B. Oakes, who can be counted upon to sustain the illustrious tradition of the New York Times.

The people of the 17th District of New York, and I as their Representative in Congress, take great pride in the New York Times as one of the great and authoritative newspapers of the world.

Other embassies cable home The New York Times without changing a comma.

After his speech, reporters asked him about the report of his political intentions, published in yesterday's New York Times.

On microfilm, headquarters also has a file of the New York Times from its founding in 1851 to the present day, as well as bound volumes of important periodicals.