Word: drapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 is this shape because the studio is this shape." said Designer Bill Eckart...
...three sons were deceived by their highborn wives, who paid for their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their lovers were broken on the wheel, flayed alive, castrated and decapitated. His intriguing daughter Isabella was unhappily married to Edward II of England, a king who would rather drape his arm with "suspect familiarity" around a young workman than em brace his queen. Courtiers, prelates, Lom bard bankers and the rising burghers scrabbled greedily for power...
...foundation fit," for a maillot of zephyr wool and Lastex. Catalina's striped suit, resembling a TV channel that needs focusing, is made of lisle cotton, clings to the bodice, has loose, boy-length shorts. Cole of California's "Venus" is a wrapped-to-the-figure white drape. "It's putty in your hands," says Cole, "but on your figure it sculpts you as Pygmalion sculptured Galatea...
...Negro's fight for first-class citizenship-in contrast with the Deep South's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decision. Wrote the Chicago Tribune's Reporter Ottley: "There are Negroes who complain that progress in the North is slow. Some even drape themselves in crepe and wail. Actually, the pace is breakneck, sometimes even too swift for the people...
...Elvis Aaron Presley, a drape-suited, tight-trousered young man of 21, and the sight and sound of him drive teenage girls wild. All through the South and West, Elvis is packing theaters, fighting off shrieking admirers, disturbing parents, puckering the brows of psychologists, and filling letters-to-the-editor columns with cries of alarm and, from adolescents, counter-cries of adulation...