Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time, the abstruse speeches had tired the audience, and the M.C. felt it was time for relaxation. Two little children clad in green arose to tap dance, and picked their feet up in a most entertaining fashion. A husky man arose, looked around at the speakers, and warbled, "You can tell from the blarney that he's from Killarney," while the ladies whispered, "Oh, he's handsome," and the men grunted, "Now on this building deal over the Charles River...
...Three Western allies were reported backing West Germany in the decision to retaliate in this fashion for President Tito's recognition Tuesday of Red-ruled East Germany...
...Ridicules is of another and quite as difficult genre, although its success was not nearly so marked. It is a charming comedy of manners, though lacking a bit in substance. Two young men send their footmen to deceive with graces two provincial young ladies bent on becoming women of fashion. The result is mildly amusing, although the performance seemed a bit forced at moments, generally over-directed and over-acted. But again it is difficult to draw the line where farce ceases to convince. Gail Jones and Phyllis Ferguson were the two ambitious young ladies, and they went through...
Tall (5 ft. 9½ in.), slender, exquisite Actress Kendall seems at one moment to have come sauntering elegantly out of a Gainsborough portrait, yet at the next she is helling about the screen like a Hogarth hoyden. There is Kay in the height of Paris fashion, triumphant on the witness stand; Kay slinking about in skintights, silkily eluding an incipient pinch; Kay staggering under a giant bouquet of sunflowers, hurling herself into a violent off-to-Buffalo; Kay drunk and belching through a lusty diaphragmentation of the Habanera from Carmen ("All ze men, zay want my -ceegarettes"). And always...
...have no definite outline, when they begin their course. And although there is much to be said in favor of this system, there is always the danger that the work will tend to bog down in a particular area, leaving some material to be covered in a very sketchy fashion...