Word: beaton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrator. 'The old we tolerate." So much for narration. The rest of the story belonged to the eloquent black-and-white cinematography, the first ever attempted by Snowdon. Among the telling vignettes: desolate faces and palsied hands fighting dinner hour in an old folks' home; Cecil Beaton, 64, describing his "first signs , of , loneliness" and his denture problems; a' Septuagenarian marriage ceremony in which the bride momentarily forgot the name of the groom; a daughter guiltily registering her arthritic father in a home. A visit to Continental spas showed elderly people desperately trying" to reverse the clock...
...last spring, "I'm going to give a party for you because you gave one for me." The place would just have to be the Plaza Hotel, "because it has the only truly beautiful ballroom left in New York." And the decor would be straight out of Cecil Beaton's Ascot scene in My Fair Lady; everyone must come in black and white...
...champion of the belief that opera worth hearing is also worth seeing, he raided Broadway, Hollywood and London for directors and set designers of the caliber of Garson Kanin, Tyrone Guthrie, Alfred Lunt and Cecil Beaton, who were imaginative if not daring. And he has at least reduced the incidence of love duets between a bandy-legged tenor and an overstuffed loveseat of a so prano; only the tones, Bing discreetly has hinted, should be pear-shaped. Significantly, wardrobe mistresses at the Met report that over a few short years the average size of the women's costumes shrank...
...well, two years ago began producing a full line of custom and ready-to-wear men's clothes. His men's fashions now gross $8,000,000 a year, five times the gross of his women's line. Among Cardin's customers: Gregory Peck, Cecil Beaton, Yul Brynner and George Hamilton...
...about the decline in home care, most doctors frankly think that the oldtime house call was largely a waste of time. They point out that a doctor can see ten people in his office in the time it might take him to make one house call. Says Dr. Lindsay Beaton, a practicing physician who is also chairman of the American Medical Association's Council on Mental Health: "I don't want to go out on a call at 2 a.m. to somebody who is dying of a myocardial infarction out at his home. I want the person brought...