Word: flame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shirt journalism has established a new deadline record of sorts. Last week, even while the Howard Hughes manuscript case was still unfolding, a two-week-old company named Flame Enterprises began distributing two timely T shirts. One shows the great recluse, in scarf and goggles, at the controls of a plane called Helga (for Helga R. Hughes, the name used by Author Clifford Irving's wife in opening a Swiss bank account). The other is simply a portrait of the mustachioed billionaire signed "H.R. Hughs." Were the T-shirt journalists guilty of a typo in the misspelling of Hughes...
...Lovejoy, are firm of jaw but slow of wit, and lag far behind the audience in solving the transparent mystery. But no matter. Time makes this hokum endearing. Director Andre de Toth comes up with several chilling images-for instance, the faces of the wax effigies being put to flame and melting into mush-and keeps the action moving briskly along its hopelessly illogical course...
Most sensitive writing: Robbins' "giant shaft of white-hot steel" and "searing sheet of flame" far outclass Hailey's modest "her heart beat faster...
...Actor as Object. Similarly, the actor in a film is an object. The camera is impersonal, but not magnanimous: it makes the actor part of the scenery. Onstage, the actor is at the incandescent center of the action. He incarnates the flame of truth and beauty invested in him by the playwright to be passed on to the audience. Thus one can say that Scofield is perfectly all right as Lear, that MacGowran is a good Fool and that Irene Worth is especially good as Goneril, the oldest and ugliest daughter. Then, too, Alan Webb sensitively portrays the Duke...
Dressing women has long been the bag of Couturier Yves St. Laurent. Nobody knows better than he the way to a lady's checkbook. The way to a man's, though, seems to have been too much of a problem for the flame-haired designer. To plug his new line of male fragrances, St. Laurent simply took all his clothes off and collapsed in a full-page advertising spread in the French edition of Vogue. The Paris Couturiers' Association unofficially declared itself "astonished." Vogue admitted it was "a little surprised." Said Yves, "I wanted shock...