Word: dressier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Discovering the Bases of Life," David Dressier...
...screenplay version of her best-selling assault on Joan, with Anne Bancroft tentatively booked to play Bad Mama. Broadway has not escaped the trend, and there are plans for plays based on the lives of Dorothy Parker, United Mine Workers Czar John L. Lewis, Singer Josephine Baker and Marie Dressier, a star...
...singer who used to entertain the towel-clad clientele at Manhattan's gay Continental Baths, Bette Midler can look forward to at least a dressier audience this January at the New York State Theater. Belting Bette is scheduled to appear there with the New York City Ballet in a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins. Celebrated Choreographer George Balanchine chose her to play the lead role of the peripatetic showgirl Annie, a part created in 1933 by Weill's widow Lotte Lenya. Why? "She has a good voice...
...belts, as Givenchy does them. Suits emphasize the midriff too, with slim skirts, or skirts tucked to the hipbone, worn with jackets that skim the body closely. Jersey, flannel and gabardine are daytime favorites, with the emphasis on navy, white and variations on tones of beige; and the dressier clothes lean to muslins, chiffons and thin crepes in soft prints, like Dior's pointillist patterns, blurring from color to color to color...
...irony of the affair is that Rosenfeld, the son of a Lancaster, Pa., rabbi and a straight-A student, did not have to falsify either experiments or documents to guarantee his future. Dressier says that he would have been admitted to any medical school in the country just on the basis of his grades...