Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Blake Edwards is uneasy, sometimes even clumsy with outright comedy (A Shot in the Dark, The Party). But he has a sure hand and dapper style for this sort of frivolous melodrama, essentially a Saturday night diversion. The violence here is subdued, the suspense unhurried and unruffled...
Wallace looks good. His hair is mod-shaggy down to his collar, and he rubs in a little brown dye to cover up the graying streaks. He is fashionably dressed and sometimes downright dapper. With his new wife advising him, he has switched his wardrobe to double knits. "They are so easy to use when you are traveling," Cornelia says. "I am dressing better than I used to," admits Wallace. "Remember the last time I campaigned, my wife had just died. Governor Lurleen? And the trouble with campaigning by yourself is that clothes...
...life in Paris; "Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum" (1914) or "The Architect's Table" (a fitting description, too, of Picasso's idea of the Cubist painter as architect) evoking the bohemian conviviality of pre-war France; clippings from French or Spanism newspapers contrasting the national characteristics of a dapper "Man with a Hat" with a Spanism-speaking guitar. Picasso's use of musical motifs is evidenced by the many studies of guitars; Cubist fragments, staccato rhythms in line and space, the illusion of projected sound created by the protruding opening in his "Guitar" sculpture. Blazing color and musical notes...
...hijacker also managed to pick ideally inclement weather to cover his escape. Sullen clouds rolled in from the Pacific, grounding the choppers until a couple of hours before darkness. By week's end officers were scratching their heads and wondering where to look next for the dapper, audacious fellow with $200,000 to spend...
...just as natural that James Wright, a dapper young lawyer from Detroit, should settle on Woodstock ten years ago as a good place to practice. In due time, he became a director of the Woodstock National Bank, president of the Rotary Club, and even (from 1964 to 1968) the prosecuting attorney for surrounding Windsor County. Yet apparently his grasp exceeded his legal reach. Wright, 44, stands accused of writing himself and his family into the wills of lonely widows...