Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several varied themes and each had a distinctly Spanish/Latin/South American tint. The first band, also called Return to Forever, had that same tint--reed man Joe Farrell, singer Flora Purim, and percussionist Airto Moreira were three-fourths of a band that lived its only album title--Light as a Feather...
...serpents are gilded with Theda Bara eye makeup and cheap-glam feather boas, but their style is belly dance rather than hippity-hop Charleston. The set, too, is twenties and thirties: the glitter of aluminum foil stars and moons is like the old movie palaces with their ugly statues, fancy organs, and ceilings domed in twinkling lights to look like the midnight sky. The effect is hokey but not distracting--it's just instant dreamland...
...much to applaud (if not to afford): daytime sportswear that emphasized soft, easy cardigan suits and jackets; fox-trimmed jackets and sweaters to go with classic sporty pleated skirts and big tentlike shelter coats. Gimmickry was no one's gimmick: even flights of fancy-veiled hats, ostrich-feather trims and dyed gold cobra coats-bespoke a hand of cool restraint...
Burlesque isn't dead as long as Sally Rand can lift a shocking pink ostrich-feather fan. At a benefit for Phoenix House, the Manhattan drug rehabilitation center, Sally, 69, got most of the midnight whistles from the Roseland crowd studded with names, from Senator Jacob Javits (in black tie) to ex-Evangelist Marjoe (in jeans...
...honors departments--History and Literature, History and Science, and Social Studies--are also a bird of a different feather, primarily because they demand more of their students in terms of the variety of requirements. These fields limit the number of concentrators and contend that they provide more rigorous training, and, therefore, one would expect some consistency in the number of summas and magnas they award. But the departments show little statistical consistency in the granting of honors...