Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stars--Celeste Holm, James Daly, Valerie Bettis, Michael Tolan and Arnold Moss--who are called on to play from two to five different major roles each. All these performances are polished. Miss Holm (young and elderly Eve, Mrs. Lutestring, Zoo, and Lilith) seems a bit uneasy as young Eve clad only in a few leaves, but she is first-rate after that, especially in her denunciatory speech to Adam and Cain, and in Lilith's concluding monologue. Daly (young and elderly Adam, Archbishop, and An Ancient) is also uneasy at first but fine thereafter, particularly...
Silverstein has apparently spared no expense in achieving a stunning and fast-paced audio-visual spectacle, such as delighted the court of Louis XIV for whom it was created. Not only do we have live musicians, but we also have livestock, not to mention a whole harem of scantily clad Turkish dancers. And it would be hard to imagine a more lavish set of costumes than William D. Roberts has designed...
...Netherlands to help in their own fashion the State University of Leiden celebrate a hands-across-the-Channel Cambridge Week. They 1) opened an exhibition of rare Rembrandts and Hobbemas that turned out to be all fakes, 2) unveiled a statue that was really two live, scantily clad models painted white, 3) planted a memorial tree in the Pieterskerkplein that managed to grow a yard overnight, 4 ) showed a film on Cambridge life filled with native mud huts and elephants wallowing in water. As a result of all the confusion ("I can't believe," cried Burgomaster Francois van Kinschot...
...keep his hands on it.* There was a mad cannonade of charges and countercharges: that she was a loose woman, that she took dope, that she was addicted to alcohol and even drank hair dye to get it. Did Seymour hire a model to leave Harriet's offices-"clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved. What is clear is the fact that Harriet was put into an insane asylum. New York in the '90s was no place or time to go mad in. Harriet Hubbard Ayer...
...made obeisance to his uncle (the King he once deposed), in return got back all his decorations and his yellow umbrella. Phetsarath was delighted to be home, smiled and nodded regally when his sarong-clad countrymen offered him hibiscus blossoms and accorded him the full-length, prostrate kowtow he had been accustomed to receive before...