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None of the set pieces have much to do with the plot, which has Moore as a composer growing bored with his longtime inamorata (Julie Andrews). His discontent takes the form of an obsession with a lovely creature (Bo Derek) whom he briefly glimpses in bridal gown and veil on her way to her wedding and ranks at the top of the familiar l-to-10 scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Random Number | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...from the damp field near Frederick, Colo. Not the most popular hour for a wedding, but certainly the most congenial time for ballooning in the early morning breezes. After solemnly repeating their vows, Diane Baumbach, 39, a secretary, and Jerry Weiman, 33, an amusement park employee, clambered into the bridal balloon, which was decked with a rope of carnations, satin bows and dangling tin cans. Touching down an hour later, the newlyweds celebrated with champagne while onlookers recited the balloon prayer, beginning: "The winds have welcomed you with softness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: More Spectacle Than Ritual | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...Norweigian fishing village he finds Senta, a girl obessed by fantasy who believes that she is his redemptress. It is a straightforward story, but Ponnelle has turned it all into the lurid dream of a young steersman. This allows him to dress Senta in an elaborate richly embroidered bridal gown and to make the opera into a series of nightmares and arresting tableaux. As thoroughgoing iconoclasm requires, Ponnelle also flouts the libretto. Wagner's Senta leaps into the sea to prove her love; Ponnelle's walks rigidly up the decks io the ghostly Dutchman's cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anti-Wagner | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...evident. It can be read literally in the sales and rentals of tuxedos, which are considerably higher than they were several years ago. Says the manager of Los Angeles Tuxedo Center: "There is definitely a return to the '30s look ?chic, elegant tuxedos." In Chicago, I. Magnin's bridal-wear sales are up 70% over last year. After the era of write-it-yourself Kahlil Gibran barefoot weddings, the large traditional marriage ritual and reception are returning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...bridal couple also stumble across some unforgettable double entendres from Mae's old pictures: "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better," and the immortal "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" There are some new ones too. When her husband turns out to be a British spy, bigger, someone says, than 007, she sighs, "I never got a chance to take his measurements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: At 84 Mae West Is Still Mae West | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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