Word: exoticisms
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Its master is Leopold Stokowski, who made a brilliant Met debut at 78 and on crutches (he is recovering from a broken hip). Having always been a theatrical conductor in the concert hall, he seemed completely at home in the theater, drawing all the score's turbulence from the...
Very few moviegoers will be able to resist Actor Sellers. Not even canny old Alastair Sim, who mugs it up as the heroine's lawyer, can steal a frame from this subtle performer who hardly seems to move his face at all. Comedian Sellers indeed is not a performer...
But Bohan's hip-hugging skirts, exotic colors ("Laburnum yellow," "Provence apricot,"), and infinite attention to detail and neatness, generally embracing the flapper trend, stunned the salon and sent reporters into paroxysms of joy. "But Marc Bohan is wonderful," cried a converted Eugenia Sheppard. "Five minutes after the show...
I am all for the new freedom in architectural design, provided it is controlled by structure and not dedicated to the exotic.
The implications of such a system are basic to biology. "Lacking an adequate framework of biological theory," Lederberg said recently, "we cannot easily construct a precise definition of life that could apply to all possible worlds. It would be incautious to reject the possibility of exotic forms of life that...