Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When John Fairchild headed Women's Wear Daily's Paris bureau, he was dubbed "Blouson Noir" ("Black Jack et," or "the tough one") by irritated fashion designers, who even crossed to the other side of the street when they saw him coming. As a trade-publication reporter, the supposedly genteel Fairchild had turned out to be an acerbic, outspoken critic of fashions. If Paris designers were relieved when he left in 1960 to become editor of Women's Wear, it was the New York fashion world's turn to be surprised. As New York Times Fashion...
After the evening performances, the hardy repaired to a nearby theater to view long-forgotten movies with operatic backgrounds. Included were such rare delights as Mae West burbling an aria from Samson et Dalila in her 1935 Coin' to Town, and a 1934 version of La Boheme, starring Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., with "music and lyrics by Giacomo Puccini and G. H. Clutsam," the latter a Hollywood tunesmith in unlikely company...
...gift and a boffo theatrical sense, made the French comic opera of his time into the granddaddy of today's musical comedy. In Orpheus, his first big success, he took what were then scandalous liberties with the Greek legend in order to parody Gluck's opera Orfeo et Euridice, to spoof solemn antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces him to complain to Jupiter. The gods, bored with ambrosia...
...Ballou, makes his players move with galvanic gestures and broad grimaces that would be too gross for a marionette show. Moreover, the script's idea of wit consists of having George Maharis, as one of the bums, end most of his sentences in the same way: "Bam! Et cetera." "We're all in this together. Et cetera...
...Happening bears all the errmarks of the amateur effort. Yet the man responsible is Sam Spiegel, producer of such impressive hits as Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai -both overseas productions. The Happening is a homemade bomb. Next time, Spiegel should reapply for foreign aid. Et cetera...