Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ready-to-wear shows. At the Museum of Fashion Arts, tradition not only continues, it abounds and surrounds. "Moments of Fashion" sets high standards for working designers and future fashion exhibits. It is smartly curated and mounted with the kind of refinement that leaves room for a witty little coup like showing two pair of knee breeches on busily pedaling half-mannequins. On the top floor, some 18th century costumes move in almost antic procession on mannequins molded like silhouettes in some three-dimensional shadow play. Below, on the 19th century floor, a woman dresses for the opera...
...sufficient poetry in his vision. Restoration, first performed in 1981 by London's Royal Court Theater, and The War Plays show little mellowing of that hortatory urge. But as offered by Washington's Arena Stage in what amounts to its U.S. premiere, Restoration proves an urgent, at times overpowering coup de theatre...
...South African pressure. He threatened to turn to East bloc countries if the West did not respond. Nevertheless, two weeks ago, Jonathan sent a delegation to Pretoria to discuss a settlement. Diplomatic sources in Maseru suggest that General Lekhanya, a member of the group, decided to stage his coup when the South Africans told him that they would continue the blockade and might openly raid A.N.C. bases in Lesotho if the country did not change its policies toward Communist countries and the A.N.C. The day after the coup, Lekhanya sent a new delegation to Pretoria. After meeting with its members...
...semiautomatic weapons from under their trench coats and cut them down. Castellano and Belotti each caught six bullets in the head and torso. As two of the gunmen ran down 46th Street toward a getaway car, the third spoke briefly into a walkie-talkie and then coolly fired a coup de grace into Castellano's skull. It took all of 30 seconds...
...chess moves. This naturally intensifies the horror of the ensuing carnage, the mad tangle of flailing, falling bodies, of spurting blood and hacked-off limbs, in which the question of whether a man lives or dies is entirely a matter of chance. In what is perhaps his greatest coup, Kurosawa plays much of the film's central battle in a total silence infinitely more terrifying than any human cry. As he says, from where they sit the gods might be able to see this madness, but its sounds would not carry to their ears...