Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sobbing woman in a soot-stained house dress picks through the burned-out ruins of her house. A mud-caked G.I. wearily slumps into his foxhole and mutters that war is hell. A phalanx of policemen plows into a mob of shouting demonstrators and drags them off to the patrol wagons...
Deadly Purse. The voice-as revealed to Sullivan-speaks on Sunday afternoons, when an audience is invited to watch the dress rehearsal. Pacing the stage like a disgruntled midwife, Sullivan keeps his baleful blue eyes on the hall. What the audience likes he likes, and performers have come to recognize a certain pursing of his lips as the kiss of death. After the run-through, he huddles with his son-in-law, Producer Bob Precht, and jiggers the sequence of acts, deletes some and pares others from 10 minutes to 90 seconds...
They look big enough to brain the butcher and turn their users into Lilliputians, but jumbo-sized needles, oil inch in diameter, are the biggest knitting news in years. Reason is that the big stitches they produce have cut the time it takes to knit a dress to six hours or less. "Anyone can use them," says their inventor, Jeanne Damon, 40, a onetime commercial artist, abstract painter and freelance knitwear designer. And if the resulting dresses are practically see-throughs, this is no drawback in the age of the body stocking...
...party last February," explains Penelope, "and he asked me to do some test shots." The result is a striking 14-page spread of pictures by Photographer Avedon in the current Vogue, which exposes Penelope's charms in-among other outfits-a partially unbuttoned pants suit, a hip-revealing dress by Rudi Gernreich and thigh-high fun furs. But no matter what the rig, Penelope animates them all with her special gamine charm and kooky doll features...
...pain over easeful death, but is in fact already dead and in purgatory; The Spire set a drama of spirit and flesh in a remote time. The Pyramid represents no retreat from these tours de force, but Golding's command of fiction is now such that he can dress his tragedians in street clothes, put them on a topographically exact stage and fix the time in the present. This is a more interesting literary exploit...