Word: dressing
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...still more concern are Jordan's personal characteristics and work habits. He has attracted a good deal of attention for a series of social faux pas, including an alleged dinner party remark about "always wanting to see the pyramids" while staring down the low-cut dress of the Egyptian ambassador's wife. When a woman accused him of making a pass in a Washington bar, then spitting a sticky mouthful of Amaretto and cream at her when she rebuffed him, the White House issued a 33-page denial of the incident...
Despite all of the exceptions, the 78° decree started a wave of more casual dress. Men were discarding suit jackets (the equivalent of reducing their workspace temperature by 3°), loosening or shedding ties (saving another 1°) and wearing short-sleeved shirts. Women in offices were turning to halter tops, looser fitting clothes and thinner fabrics...
...whole trend set some of the stuffier law firms and various executive rows into re-examining traditional codes of dress. For the first time, reporters covering Congress were allowed to enter the press galleries without suit coats and ties. But a valiant attempt to extend that right to members of the House was squelched by a surprisingly decorous House Speaker Tip O'Neill. When Jim Mattox, a Texas Democrat, showed up in a light blue shirt and no tie, O'Neill asked him to leave...
...attraction of presenting Shakespeare in modern dress dates from the productions of Sir Barry Jackson, starting with his Hamlet of 1925. The earliest modern-dress Caesar apparently was the anti-Fascist one with which Orson Welles, at age 22, inaugurated his Mercury Theatre in 1937 (the previous year he had mounted an all-Negro Macbeth set in the voodoo world of Haiti). In 1939 Henry Cass put the play in Mussolini's Italy. Donald Wolfit, Minos Volanakis, Michael Croft and others have since updated this drama...
...prone to enthusiasm about modernized Shakespeare, mainly because it tends to serve gimmick-happy directors without serving the playwright; such was the case with several of the American Shakespeare Theatre's early efforts. But it is possible to throw fresh light on the text through modern-dress productions, as Michael Kahn did here with his Love's Labour's Lost in 1968. Freedman's Caesar takes numerous risks, and for the most part succeeds surprisingly well...