Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whirligogs," an early work, exhibits the same concerns. Lubovitch, exploring the ways shape and emotional suggestion interrelate, relies on representational gesture just verging on the abstract. Accompanied by Berio's voice collage "Sinfonia," black-hooded dancers appear, then a man and woman in bared dress. The hooded dancers return unmasked, later reappearing disguised, only to toss their masks defiantly to the side, and then again appear as dark spirits surrounding and overwhelming the lovers. Lubovitch uses his costume flexibly, allowing the masks to suggest rather than to define possibilities. He realizes the unanticipated. As a voice in flat monotone recites...
COURRÈGES spilled out a whole locker room of sweat pants, parkas, tennis dresses, beach clothes and mechanics' coveralls. In contrast he showed a jersey dress that glows in the dark and a line of sexy swimsuits, their two pieces placed vertically, not horizontally, and held together by thin strings on the sides...
...plane in Washington, Carter carried his bags again, but the transformation had already begun. At the Kennedy Center that night, the audience-in evening dress-stood to applaud as the Carter family entered, Jimmy in a subdued black tuxedo and ruffled shirt, Rosalynn in a long red skirt and black blouse, and Amy in a red juniper. With pleased grins, they settled into the plush seats of the presidential box for the glittering, 2½-hr. 1977 New Spirit Inaugural Concert...
...said Maxine. Now she had the train-and an $85,000 bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress. "We're going to tear up Pennsylvania Avenue," she chirped...
...call Mrs. Carter and say I just can't make the deadline and would she mind staying a few more days at Blair House." One evening the President searched fruitlessly through his bureau drawers for a turtleneck shirt for an informal buffet dinner. Settling for a white dress shirt and tie, Ford explained to his host, Photographer David Kennerly, "I know I was supposed to dress casually, but this is all that was left...