Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE DEVIL. A revival in modern dress recaptures all the gory gothic elements of John Webster's 17th century melodrama of destruction wrought by ambition, greed, murder and revenge...
...Kauffmann was the sort of critic who decided right off that he could not do justice to a review for a morning paper when there was only about an hour between curtain's fall and press's roll. So he began attending preview performances-and even a dress rehearsal or two. That gave Kauffmann time to ruminate for an extra day or so before deadline. It also gave producers and the other daily critics a pain in the neck. The producers claimed that their shows were not ready for reviewers' eyes at previews, and the critics made...
...Chopin and Liszt, romanticism came to full flower. Chopin, who at the peak of his career weighed only 97 Ibs., was an artist of delicate expression: he taught the piano to breathe. Liszt taught it to belch fire. A saturnine dandy with flowing shoulder-length blond hair and a dress coat aglitter with medals, he combined virtuosity with showmanship, worked himself into such a lather that he would sometimes faint. Women hurled their jewels on the stage and fought over the green doeskin gloves that he deliberately left on the piano...
...supreme Court bench, and Mrs. Friedan straightened. Tapping the table with a forefinger bearing an enormous ring and straining to make us understand, she said, "Aspire. Exactly. Adults ask little boys what they want to be when they grow up. They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress...
...deign to confide his thoughts to anyone, least of all to his dim twin. The thoughts, anyhow, are nothing much, but when Waldo retires, he will maybe get around to collating notes for his novel-Tiresias as a Youngish Man-which he keeps in mum's old dress box. Tiresias was the shaman of Thebes, who had a prophetic gift as well as the characteristics of both sexes. Waldo gets into the spirit of the thing by putting on his dead mum's old ball dress...