Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening approaches, nerves grow tense in the studios. Assistants throw tantrums, models faint from exhaustion, Dior himself bursts into tears of emotion. On opening day, he takes refuge in the models' dressing room, a madhouse of half-clad models, hurrying dressers, seamstresses making last-minute adjustments. As each girl hurries back in, gets out of one gown and dons a new one ("girdle-to-girdle" time is calculated at three minutes), Dior questions her anxiously about the reaction, kisses her warmly if her model has been a success...
...shopping for a new dress, asks for "something just like what I have on"-and men would not like it if she did. Few women have the social assurance to trust their own taste completely. Dior's great service is to raise a standard to which the faint of heart can repair. He points a way to be different, but not too different; different in a way which will be imitated and not laughed at. What woman could ask for more...
...last three Godkin lecturers, further implies that Harvard "is more concerned with repairing damaged careers than in the more prosaic task of pursuing and disseminating the truth." In judging the University's selection of its guest lecturers, Newsweek's analyst has suggested that "Harvard is haunted by the faint smell of witches burned centuries ago and is obsessed by the belief that the public is always wrong...
...closing scenes, in which Andrey and Natasha were reunited as Andrey lay on his deathbed. Through his delirium he hears a pulsing beat, played in the orchestra by the strings sul ponticello (bow strokes near the bridge), and echoes it over and over again in a faint, falling cry. In one of Prokofiev's most dramatic musical inventions, the orchestra announces Andrey's approaching death-a scene that ranks among the greatest ever written for opera...
Pole vaulters Kip Smith and Don Richards have both graduated, leaving a huge void which must be filled by sophomores Dick Williams, Barnes Keller, and Barrett Churchill. Keller has looked the best so far, which, at this point, is unfortunately damning with faint praise...