Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past four or five years the trend in Pudding musicals has been away from the traditional skit to the integrated musical comedy," bacon pointed out. "Therefore, it has seemed to make sense to produce this type of musical in as realistic and entertaining a fashion as possible. And this would include the use of girls," he added...
...McCardell. However, those California bathing-suit manufacturers have reached a low with a gimmick "evening convertible" (swimsuits that can be transformed to evening dresses). The thought of dressing for evening in something I had worn bathing a few hours before, or even a week before, sends chills down my fashion-conscious spine...
...small orchestra. Its plot is likely to be a fantasy with more moral than melodrama; one act is too short, and young artists are not best suited for grand passion. Its music stems from the German style, i.e., continuous, more or less expressive singing, rather than from the Italian fashion with its separate, show-stopping arias. The voice parts, in their way, are likely to resemble instrumental parts, as they did in the golden age of Italian-style vocalism (up through the days of Handel). Modern composers find this kind of singing more expressive than the vocal thunder...
...abstract painters at the Whitney showed even more brass than the sculptors. They generally displayed huge canvases, as the fashion is, but made some concession to hanging problems by favoring very tall pictures instead of very wide ones. Most followed the lead of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the proconsuls of abstract expressionism, in energetically weaving fat tangles of paint over their yards and yards of canvas. Yet taken for what it was-decoration-the effect was often charming. Such expert practitioners as Theodores Stamos, James Brooks and the late Bradley Walker Tomlin manage to enfold the observer...
...poison"--and new ones made up--"Better a full beard than an empty pocket." There is much fear of scandal and it appears that there are a number of things that gentlemen don't do, although the gentlemen go ahead and do them anyway, in as clumsy fashion as possible. The costuming, which for some reason includes kilts, is appropriately ludicrous...