Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Look here! do you take this woman or don'tcha?
In earlier years of the Eisenhower Administration, Artur Rubinstein, Hildegarde and Marian Anderson, among others, have played the White House.*Only last year some show business commentators-including Critic Coe-blamed the Eisenhowers for requesting too many command performances (traditionally unpaid) from well-known entertainers. Ike never cared much for...
The London Times feared that the upstart invasion might unbalance the ancient fortress of classical learning, and one frosty don complained that another half-thousand bicycles would clog the university town's streets beyond unsnarling. But last week, despite the serious reservations of some scholars, Cambridge University took the...
But the moment of truth for these characters sadly shatters the mythic mood of the play. When the bandit is revealed as a braggart, the samurai as a snuffling coward and his wife as a trollop, the Kanins' script, unlike the film, fumbles away the Swiftian savagery of Akutagawa...
Up: Ricci. The loudest cheer was not for Dior, Chanel, Manguin and other big names but for an almost unknown couturier. His collection of neat suits and petite bell-skirted dresses had the buyers raving over "the exciting new house"-and buying. The house is Nina Ricci (pronounced reachy), in...