Word: cancanned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same capital dominated by a singleminded flycatcher who hovered behind Carter until -swat!-he nailed his prey and plucked it daintily from the linen. The Secret Service walkie-talkie conversations that somehow got broadcast over a microphone in the Casino de Paris in the midst of rehearsals by topless cancan dancers. All in all, said the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Carter has "proved that he can do with words what Gerald Ford used to do with his forehead against door sills...
...camisoles, Co-Owner Lynn Manulis calls them "a very provocative above-the-table look." Joanne Stroud, professor of literature and psychology at the University of Dallas, bought two Saint Laurent corselettes. Her mother was shocked. Says Stroud: "I think she got the idea I'd become a cancan girl...
...irrepressible way. One of her pieces of advice to the Total Woman is to wave goodbye to the husband when he leaves for work. A neighbor saw Marabel doing that herself one morning not long ago. Only she didn't just wave. She suddenly started doing the cancan...
...matron, Drake is a shameless charmer with voice that is pure gold. The score-much of it reprised from the film-is far and away the best part of the show. As for the negligible choreography, it seems rather like a course in ballroom deportment except for one cancan number, and anyone who can work up much excitement over the cancan at this date qualifies as a full-fledged member of the Geritol set. That may indeed be the ideal audience for this show. ·T.E. Kalem
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, Balloonatic by Buster Keaton, and French CanCan by Jean Renoir, May 10, 8 $1, Faust by F.W. Murnau, with Emil Jannings...