Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway in 1940. For this film version of Shrew, the Burtons-who only recently finished shrewing their way through the movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-are being put through their paces by Franco Zeffirelli, the irreverent Italian director who once did a modern-dress Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story that audiences can eat up, the Elizabethan language of the script notwithstanding, and he predicts that the film "will go over well with...
...supermarkets barely break even, though Ferkauf says they are now "trending upwards." Privately, Ferkauf concedes that his empire was built too fast on a shaky foundation. The business was also damaged by its taking on some expensive airs. It tried simultaneously to upgrade its merchandise, add costly services, dress up its stores, and make expensive pushes into such distant cities as Detroit, Chicago and Baltimore. As a result, it hit wall-to-wall competition from established stores and supermarkets...
...this diversity. "Many of our critical new programs involve the Federal Government in joint ventures with states and local governments," said the President in his Budget Message. "We must give more freedom of action and judgment to the people on the firing line." Johnson is planning a full-dress speech on creative federalism before long. Last week, in a kind of foretaste, White House Aide Joe Califano said in a Washington speech: "Now that we acknowledge national responsibility in every sphere, we find that federal power cannot be applied in any sphere except as it works through states, cities, local...
...silliest solution to one of these hairsplitting arguments is in effect at Unionville (Pa.) High School, where a school handbook proclaims that "in a democracy, dress and grooming are dictated by good taste and pride in one's appearance" and that "a child's behavior is most often a reflection of the way he dresses." To Superintendent LeVan P. Smith, democratic hair must not touch the eyes, ears or shirt collar. He suspended Senior Alan T. Miller, 18, whose hair infringes upon his shirt but whose behavior somehow had not been adversely affected. Alan drew straight...
...vase painting, created an amalgam that also included serpentine art nouveau and traditional English silhouette figures. His subject matter was never innocent. Wrote Beardsley of a series of book cuts: "The subjects were quite mad and a little indecent. Strange hermaphroditic creatures wandering about in Pierrot costumes or modern dress; quite a new world of my own creation...