Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother was very adament about that early on," Ian says. "It wasn't until we became fashion-conscious that she reluctantly allowed us to dress differently...
...back when, George M. Cohan spotted the appeal of the man who had "named himself after an English actor and a German city." Berlin, said the Yankee doodle dandy, "writes a song with a good lyric, a lyric that rhymes, good music, music you don't have to dress up to listen to. He is uptown, but he is there with the old downtown hard sell...
...each other in the dining hall, some at their best and calmest and others at their caffeinated worst. Often we dress uniformly (sweats), and we always sit in groups. What can we infer about each other, personally, morally, or whatever, from these observations? It would be optimistic to say nothing; still, I hope nothing is the answer. I can never tell by looking who is writing a novel and who is composing a string quartet; people continue their efforts nonetheless, and they continue to surprise...
...made-up hero edges toward real bravery. Edwards tries to make this point through a labyrinthine murder mystery that takes the pair from high Hollywood (the first Academy Awards ceremony) to low (a house of ill fame where the girls impersonate movie stars). Edwards demonstrates a fondness for period dress, decor and autos, but he fails to develop an attitude, satirical or otherwise, toward his subject. And the obsessive twisting of his plot imposes a sinking weight of expository words on the picture...
Celimene's spacy cousin, Eliante (Natasha Shapiro) is more of a ham, Despite a dress that makes her look like Miss Havisham...