Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which speculates fancifully about the Bard's inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. "She comes armed with instinct." Among Madden's favorite creations for the film were the costumes she made for the staged production of Romeo and Juliet. He loved the way in which the lavishness of the players' dress contrasted with the shabby browns worn by the commoners in the audience. "At first we thought it looked bizarre," says Madden, "but what was so brilliant was how she captured in costume how extraordinarily intoxicating that play must have been to the grubby creatures down in the pit watching...
True, Ms. Mutter was strapless, playing the violin in a gun-metal gray dress, and Mr. Ozawa was batonless, conducting as if summoning some ancient rain spirit. But these were the few rare unconventional elements of BSO's February 8th performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61 and Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, pictures from pagan Russia...
...since you know you're going, some thoughts for the night. Underdress before you overdress, anyday. No spangles or rhinestones without accompanying mohawk. Lipstick must never match the dress, unless both are fire-engine red. Then you must wear matching nail polish as well. Never go to a hairdresser for an event that calls itself a formal, and just say no to nude stockings. As for the gown itself, well, bubble skirts are ironic. Puffy sleeves...
...just as soon not go into in detail--had been put together by a French newspaper, Le Figaro. I could have added that hard on the heels of the Times story I saw a Reuters item about Metro officials having spent five years developing a new fragrance designed to dress up the aroma of Paris subway stations...
...Orthodox world was foreign to most of the theatergoers (although a remarkable percentage wore Yarmulkehs, and laughed and applauded for thesame reason that it is enjoyable to look at familyphotoalbums: the amazement of seeing yourselfportrayed so perfectly): the manners of dress andmodes of speaking, the particular theology andphilosophy, the approach to modernity and theconflict between the secular and the sacred...