Word: corseted
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...East Side youngster in writing a play, the proceeds to buy Christmas toys for underprivileged children (gross take from ticket sale: "over $2"). Soon afterward an uncle noticed that as Margie sat on a hassock she looked crooked, and her right shoulder blade protruded. The family doctor prescribed a corset, which soon broke and was discarded. Eventually a neighborhood hospital referred the Bilottis to one of the few places in Manhattan that specialize in treating conditions like Margie's, the Hospital for Special Surgery...
...week began Pierre Pflimlin, member of the M.R.P. Catholic center party and a good European, had tried to form a Cabinet devoted to lacing France into a "financial corset" of austerity. Conservative Independent Paul Reynaud told him: "Your program is tragically insufficient. I would even say it is not serious." The Conservatives would just as soon delay until a new election was forced, scenting that they might pick up some of the 37 seats now held by the discredited Poujadists. The Socialists, whose votes Pflimlin next solicited, were not anxious to face their electoral supporters at this month...
...cluttered set compressed cast and crew like a too-tight corset. Some six basic sets, including Graustarkian streets, bridges, gardens and flats on casters and hundreds of props were arranged in a tight circle on a stage about the size of a basketball court. Off in one niche among the sets, Comedienne Alice Ghostley, one of the mean stepsisters, inadvertently pulled a lavender drape down about her head. "Who in hell moved the curtains?" the prop man screeched from across the room. The sets towered up to within an inch of the overhead pipes and lights. "The street scene...
till-now look lean forward expectantly. Dumpy ladies in basic black sit corset-upright and clutch stout, thick purses; the men from Seventh Avenue flick at their silver-white ties, exchanging grunted comments. The babble quickly hushes as the first model appears, and upon each face falls a stolid mask of calculated indifference, for any flicker will betray the spectator's interest to watching competitors...
...aspiring author named Fret, played by Marc Brugnoni, and a gentleman-about-town called Sneer, portrayed by Robert Jordan, needle each other with polished skill. But Thomas Teal, as a horse-faced and impassive servant, all but steals the scene as the helps his master ceremoniously slip on a corset...