Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas Crown Affair...
...Fashion can be bought," said one-time Vogue Editor Edna Woolman Chase. "Style one must possess." The Thomas Crown Affair has spent millions on fashion; Faye Dunaway makes 31 smashing costume changes, while Steve McQueen appears in $350 suits and consults a $2,250 Patek Philippe watch. The screen that exhibits them is a flashy replay of Expo 67 techniques, fragmenting into scores of tiny separate images like a mint sheet of stamps, or simultaneously showing five characters in five different places...
...garbed in Ray Diffen's dark colors. Into this assembly descends the King via a steep stage-right staircase. He has long blond hair, a blond beard, and is dressed entirely in blinding white, with silver R's embroidered on his cape. To top it off, inside the gold crown on his head he holds a white kitten...
...ought to be the supreme example of Richard's artistic management, the culmiation of a life-long series of shows. It is he who arranged it, he who has staged it, and he who stars in it. But Madden, now garbed in gray, tells Bolingbroke, "Here, cousin, seize the crown," and beckons with a finger. On yielding up the crown and sceptre, Richard's hands tremble and his voice stutters. In short, Richard the Actor has failed; and this is unacceptable. Still, Madden does strike straight to the heart in his outcry, "Mine eyes are full of tears; I cannot...
...nothing Rockefeller did could obscure the fact that Richard Nixon is far and away the front runner and that only a minor-perhaps even a major-political miracle could crown the New York Governor at Miami Beach. Nixon backers fumed privately at Rocky's belated combativeness. "He's damaging the party, and it's a contemptible thing to do," said one, "but not unexpected." Nixon himself was mostly silent. He fished briefly in Nassau, held strategy meetings in his Fifth Avenue apartment, gave a talk at his daughter Patricia's graduation from Manhattan's Finch...