Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first and foremost of Cleary's worries will be figuring out the lineup for tonight's game. Injuries and illness will force several starters to miss the game, while several others are still in doubt. "I don't even know who's going to dress," Cleary said yesterday. "I really don't have the foggiest...
...some rice or vegetables for lunch. As she talked the seated woman smoothed out the shiny folds of her yellow skirt, long and puffy in the traditional manner of the Aymara. In contrast to the men, very few of the women have changed to modern dress...
...Sometimes the children point at the Rath place and whisper about her--while the adults are busy with the New Year. The Rath's new neighbor, Mary Beth Twyman, aged 19, was married two days ago Saturday in Holy Cross Chapel in a waltz-length white peau--de--soire dress and a crown of pink pearls, and as she drove off with her husband in his new model Camaro, a St. Christopher's charm dangled from the rear view mirror. December saw 25 houses finished in one arm of the Troy development and a turnover of almost 100 people...
Zardoz is visually bounteous. The locale is never specified, but the actors all have one variety or other of English accents, and the film draws much of its bleak, primitive beauty from the Irish countryside where it was shot. The costumes are comic-book eccentric, and fun: the women dress in tie-dyed gossamer, while Zed bounds around mostly in a red loincloth and bandoleers. Boorman gets good work from his cast. Besides Connery, and a fine assortment of character actors, there are the excellent Charlotte Rampling as a sort of stern, fairy-princess scientist; and Sara Kestelman...
Most of these beauties, alas, were the creations of his pressagents or the chronically disaffected habitues of the commissary writers' table. What truly distinguished Goldwyn was his fussy insistence on applying the same standards of "good taste" to his movies that he applied to his dress. Even more important was his ability to maintain those standards while defending his independence for nearly 50 years - despite the nearly irresistible drive for industry consolidation. The nerve, shrewdness, and energy with which Sam Goldwyn maintained his freedom in the Hollywood jungle now seem at once exemplary and unduplicable...