Word: dress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems as foundation creams, face powder and eye shadow. Homey touches abounded: a shelf behind Elizabeth's chair bristled with Christmas cards; a large photo of nine-year-old Prince Charles and seven-year-old Princess Anne stood at the Queen's elbow. Wearing a brocaded afternoon dress, the Queen was positioned at her oak desk, sitting sideways from it so that she faced directly into the camera and into the eyes of an estimated 50 million viewers in Great Britain and on the Continent...
...were in full, ecstatic cry. Headlined the News Chronicle: THE QUEEN'S TV TRIUMPH! Cheered the Daily Sketch: "The Queen knocks those critics cold!" The only faultfinder was Donald Edgar of the Daily Express. Why, asked Edgar, had not someone the sense to tell the Queen that her dress ("It was fussy with that great big bow") was wrong for TV? Why was her makeup...
...questions are: Who will get the presidency, and who will land the Georgia peach when she leaves her husband? Henry gets her, but only for a night. Author Barr is not so academic that he forgets to undress and dress her, striptease fashion. Her final disposition, and the outcome of the struggle for the presidency are fairly routine. Along the way, U.S. students are denounced as dumb fat-cats, professors are cast as unimaginative hacks, trustees are pilloried as cynical businessmen whose least interest is education, and foundations are pictured as troughs fought over by piggish college presidents. Being...
...Wyatt's guests, Transvestite Kahler was supplied by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men, and did not discover his sex until they got him to the station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform before the Crosshatch...
...down quite smoothly, suggesting the not altogether happy possibility that A Christmas Carol may endure on TV till the cows come home. It also stirred some speculation about what the dickens the TV adapters may do next with the Yule classic. The time may be ripening for a modern-dress version, with Scrooge as a tough old union boss; a psychiatric adaptation ("These hallucinations of yours," says Scrooge's analyst nephew, "suggest a guilt syndrome"); or even a major switch as foreseen in a recent cartoon in which a clubroom lounger growls of his book...