Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collared cheongsam dresses in clingy silk knits with side buttoning and frog fasteners down the front. The look, Adolfo allows, "is very sexy. It is cut to show the fanny, and if you have a little tummy, it shows that too. Men like it very much." So does the Duchess of Windsor, who was carried away by a polka-dotted sheath at an Adolfo show...
...amendment for women in the 1930s, and buttonholed Southwestern oil barons for contributions to her "hero" Harry Truman during his come-from-behind campaign in 1948. Truman reciprocated in 1949 by creating for her the post of Minister to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where her fetes for the duchess and footloose G.I.s inspired Irving Berlin's 1950 musical Call Me Madam. Her reign as Washington's leading hostess was resumed in 1954 and continued till 1972 with a brief interregnum during the Kennedy years (she backed Nixon in 1960), though she gradually shaded into the role...
...Francisco Opera. First, Mayor Joseph Alioto chose to publicize his crusade to make San Franciscans use public transport by arriving for a performance of The Daughter of the Regiment on a bus. Then oldtime Upstager Hermione Gingold, 77, made her operatic debut in the tiny role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp and turned what should have been a brief appearance into a runaway slapstick turn. Finally, some 3,552 emotional fans gave Soprano Beverly Sills an ovation for her courage and her performance. It was barely four weeks after major but successful cancer surgery, and Sills was making the first...
Goya began the Caprichos in 1797, at the end of a bitter love affair with the libidinous Duchess of Alba. In a good position, therefore, to cast a critical eye on Spanish aristocratic society, he conceived a series of "suenos," or dreams. For his frontispiece, he made a print which he called "El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstruous"--the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. A man lies crumpled on his desk, asleep, and devoid of reason: he is attacked by a horde of owls--the Spanish symbol for dirt and stupidity--black bats and a glaring...
Mother Rachel Kempson, 63, is appearing in a Thames Television series on Winston Churchill, playing his grandmother, the dowager Duchess of Maryborough. Brother Corin Redgrave, 34, is finishing a film in Australia, and Father Sir Michael Redgrave, 68, opened last week in The Hollow Crown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Arriving in New York City, he hastened to congratulate youngest daughter Lynn Redgrave, 30, for scoring her second success on Broadway, as the demon slimmer of My Fat Friend. Said Lynn ebulliently: "It's nice to know we're all working and can finally pay the rent...