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Taking the opposite tack, Sherry Gamble of Arsenic and Old Lace started out two years ago selling only black costumes: Victorian dresses and capes, many heavily decorated with ribbon and jet beads. Now she has branched out to include other colors and styles up through the '50s, though black still...

Author: By Lucy I. Armstrong, | Title: When 'Old' Becomes 'New' | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

By motorcade, they raced to Los Angeles city hall, where the Queen made her only formal address. Fans swarmed outside, including one group dressed in Elizabethan doublets and capes. "Come on, pedestrians!" ordered a policeman over a bullhorn. "Heads up, pedestrians!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Queen Makes A Royal Splash | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

In E. T. he goes a step further: he gives back a new fairy tale as good as old. The film opens on a night sky, Disney I blue and full of twinkling stars. In the clearing of a forest that Bambi and Thumper might have been pleased to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steve's Summer Magic | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

But the film's major hangup is its confused characterization of evil. The devil (David Warner a la Ming the Merciless) tries to encompass all evil but fails to conjure anything but pity for his campy lines. Margaret Hamilton's witch in Oz terrified children of all ages; she never...

Author: By --david M. Handelman, | Title: A Victim of the Modern Age | 11/6/1981 | See Source »

The two well-known actors, Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson, pose deeper problems, and offer more radical solutions. Of Morgana, mistress of mandrake and sulfur, Mirren makes an armored, camp enchantress. Swathed in purple veils and seaweed capes, intoning Merlin's dread spells as if they contained the dirtiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Glorious Camp of Camelot | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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