Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Halston, the designer who started his career as a milliner, believes that "a spectacularly flattering hat is the ultimate ornamentation. When Queen Elizabeth has a white-tie party, she wears her crown. It sets her apart from everyone." The right hat, chosen from today's many mad caps, can do the same for any woman...
...overlapping dialogue Altman loves to use. He demonstrates an uncanny skill at staging. His camera seems to eavesdrop almost simultaneously on a dozen conversations that reveal, in a few lines of dialogue or a fleeting expression, brilliantly encapsulated characterizations. As always, his location is full of expressive artifacts, shrewdly chosen and revealed...
...really had to be there. Trillin manages to convey his appreciation for what he eats without straining after poetic equivalents of the taste. After a generous helping of crabes farcis, he simply notes that "chefs on Martinique tend to use as stuffing what I suspect a crab would have chosen to stuff himself with if only he had been given the opportunity." He has high praise for the cooking of a Manhattan neighbor and adds: "Alice claims that when we are walking there for dinner she is often forced to grab me by the jacket two or three times...
...American orchestras chosen to represent the - U.S. in the annual competition. Other countries participating include the USSR, Japan and West Germany...
These opening words of This House of Sky whisper up a big promise. They say, on top of all else, that a real writer is at hand. Yet the bright prospect may, at the outset, seem at odds with the vehicle he has chosen for his first book: a personal memoir. The form, after all, is notorious for snaring even gifted writers in thickets of anecdotage and sentiment...