Word: chiffons
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Waiting for Otto. She punctuates all her narratives, like Mort Sahl, by saying "Right?" On television, she became "the chiffon-light Jell-O pudding and pie-filling girl," toured New York State as Jenny the Genesee Beer Girl for $250 a week, and "that was more money than I thought God had. Right?" While going to classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, she worked as a waitress nights until 4 a.m. "I have a lot of guts," she says, splitting a subtle hair, "but not a lot of courage; and courage is where the money...
Blue & Silver. All Friday afternoon, Newport's little airport was like a vestpocket Idlewild, with private planes circling for landing clearance before disgorging cargoes of sun-bronzed men and long-necked beauties, chiffon scarves swathing their high-piled hairdos...
...your April 19 issue, you credited me with helping Joan Crawford become the most photographed star at the Oscar presentations. My cup of pride ran over until I turned to Cinema, where your movie reviewer put me in the tomato-stuffing business as the result of a red chiffon dress Judy Garland wore in i Could Go on Singing...
...like a puffed-up Edith Piaf even though today, at 40, she looks like a million. Merciless photography highlights the bags under the eyes and the wringing hands that are the stigmata of Judy in distress. And Costume Designer Edith Head has not helped by giving her a red chiffon outfit that makes Garland look like somebody had tried to stuff eight great tomatoes into a little bitty gown...
...shirt, she looks jaunty enough for a cruise; nothing could ever make her nauseated. Or she finishes the velvet slippers she is whipping up for Dad; all embroidery done during The Period of Expectancy is performed under the pale light of a cut-glass chandelier, in a full-length chiffon hostess gown, no matter that it's the middle of the day. Or she shows three-year-old Junior the bassinet being readied for Baby; Junior, never having heard of sibling rivalry or displacement, smiles as he runs his freshly scrubbed hands over the imported organdy flounces that Mummy...