Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desperate Move. He generally goes around in a tieless flannel shirt, stovepipe trousers that somehow bag at the knees, a moldy, fur-lined leather coat ("I shot it myself"), and a workingman's cloth cap. But he wears a suit and tie to restaurants, so that he will not "have to perform as a rebel, put my feet on the table or something that would interfere with my eating." He simply fears "claustrophobia of the soul" (which may have helped cause him to separate from his wife, Actress Jane Wenham), thinks that too many British actors are preoccupied with...
...attracts attention to what he is doing, but an artist who reveals what he is. And what Sellers is, solely and invariably, is the character he is portraying. In playing Shaw's exotic sawbones, he employs all manner of visual props: a purple complexion, a sweaty old fur cap, a superb Calcutta accent that sounds as though he had swallowed a noisy fly as he opened his mouth to talk. Nevertheless, the makeup helps to make, not a music-hall figure of fun, but a man-a gentle, warm, naive and wonderfully decent man. Sellers obviously loves...
...Textile Workers Union has argued to the U.S. Tariff Commission that tariff walls ought to be raised against foreign cloth. The United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers International has organized a "Buy American" campaign aimed at retailers and the public, distributes handbills before some stores that sell chiefly imported headgear. Last year the 1,200-member local of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Roanoke, Va. struck the Kenrose Manufacturing Co. Inc., which had just opened a new plant in Ireland. The union won a company agreement to set aside part of its Irish profits to compensate workers...
...MacArthur's personal and military documents, his 123 U.S. and foreign decorations, battle trophies and gifts from the great, and the 126 battle flags that have unfurled over his soldier's career. On the collection's lighter side: the general's special gold-braided cap, his old sunglasses and his favorite corncob pipe...
...more dollar volume, but it still has claims to color. One actor actually insured himself against falling in love while making a picture. In 1957 before the cameras of Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley produced an inguinal heave so seismic that it traveled to his upper jawbone, loosening a tooth cap that fell into his bronchial tube ($2904) During the filming of The Young Lions, Marlon Brando spilled a pot of hot tea in his lap, developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman's Fund $632,197 (against a typical premium...