Word: dress
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...that I do not follow your argument.' " As for loud belching, that is "the peak of tactlessness-but if you do it, say quietly 'Pardon me' and don't go into further detail on how it happened." Though she lives in a country where bourgeois dress was long shunned in favor of workers' baggy overalls, Mme. Majorová comes out for the old standards, including shirt and tie. "It is the height of bad manners," she adds, "to take off your shoes in front of your secretary...
Thus the Café Cristal crowd at The Diplomat in Hollywood, Fla., received a refreshing surprise last week when a new singer named Lana Cantrell announced kiddingly, "I wrote all the music, and I made the dress myself." The same club is in for the same sort of happy jolt this week when another new comer, Marilyn Maye, breezes in and limits the tributes to her piano-accompanist husband, Sammy Tucker. "Stand up, honey," she usually says, "and let them see your fat little body." Their asides aside, Lana and Marilyn are old-fashioned do-it-yourself singers with...
Unbearable Teas. At first glance, Serkin looks more like a folk-rocker than he does like a concert pianist. His hair is modishly shaggy, his dress casually disheveled, his talk typically teen. "It's difficult to be an American these days," he sighs, "especially a young one. There's a whole generation running things who lived through the most terrible times in history-wars, the bomb, tensions, heading for disaster. I think everybody's pressing down on us-on the young people-as a substitute for solving problems, as a release from tensions...
Romp & Stomp. The Danish critics, many of whom were skeptical of upstart Flindt at the outset, agreed that, in a year of forward strides, Mandarin was the grand jete. When Flindt took over, he started straight off to dress up the troupe's traditional repertory and leaven it with new modern works...
...Everything I do, I do to please myself," the young diarist wrote. "If I write something, it is to be able to read myself; if I dress, it is to look well in my own eyes; I smile at myself in the mirror to be amiable to myself. Ah! My pride, my pride...