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...once sued Joyce to recover some money he'd spent on a pair of pants for an amateur production of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest put on by the local English-speaking community and co-produced by Joyce. Stoppard's Carr is a rambling codger in a floor-length dressing gown as he tells us Stoppard's story in flash-backs, wreathing himself in cigarette smoke as he pounds out a travesty of Beethoven's Appassionata sonata whenever he wants the audience to realize he is saying something meant to be profound...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Triumph and Travesty | 10/3/1974 | See Source »

John Conklin has designed a handsome setting, all in off-white, just starting to show signs of deterioration. Three pairs of floor-length lace curtains catch the wisps of breeze and a variety of colors from the fireworks in the garden. In the center of the room, where it belongs as a major bone of contention, is a large double bed. I am reminded of the blooper committed by a TV announcer promoting the showing of the play's film version: "See Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in a Cot on a Hot Tin Roof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams's 'Cat' Revised and Revived | 7/26/1974 | See Source »

...York on a first visit to the U.S., only the finest would do. In her refrigerator Ulanova found champagne, caviar and other necessities of the ballet life. Everywhere she looked there were flowers. In the sitting room stood the biggest surprise: a specially constructed exercise bar backed by floor-length mirrors. "So, my dear," said the man, "you can practice here if you wish." Remarked a theatrical producer later: "That is the difference between an impresario and a manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: S.Hurok (1888-1974) | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...that I should lean toward something I knew," she says. That means sensuality and films. So she asked 15 couturiers to create dresses capturing the personality of 20 film makers. Some of the results are nothing short of smashing, witness Emanuel Ungaro's idea of Andy Warhol: a floor-length cape punctured by hundreds of holes with plastic spheres swinging in the openings. Or from Lanvin, the dramatic Pier Paolo Pasolini creation: a black sweater that takes a breast-baring plunge to the waist, with bold-patterned Zouave pants. For the sensual part, Moreau had Henri Cartie-Bresson photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vogue | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Rags discovers what some young people are wearing simply by sending photographers into the streets. Among its rarer finds: a girl with a shaved head in a bright orange gym suit, a mini-outfit made out of an old valance and a floor-length gown "made out of old curtains that I ripped off of this house from which I was evicted because I was mad at the landlady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A New Eye for Fashion | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

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