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...last play of the season, George Etheridge's The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter, will be directed by Robert II. Chapman, director of the Loeb. It is an early example of the comic form later developed by Wycherly and Congreve, and will be produced in mid-December
...named King rides around on a horse named Tiger and does NOT eat him; a Mexican acrobat does a triple somersault-the one that gave Burt Lancaster all that trouble in Trapeze-and does NOT fall: Helena Rassy's pastel-dyed pigeons are released from the balcony and flutter down to her and NOT into the crowd...
Once such extreme fashion could be worn, as one U.S. buyer put it, "only on top of an elephant in the Barnum & Bailey Circus." Today, with more informal living, chances are excellent that many a young thing this summer will flutter about in wide drapery harem pants, try slinging her hooded Arab cloak over her bead-necklace top and hip-hugging pants. And for those who expect to fall, or be thrown, into a pool, there is' an evening bathing suit with a top that is just a halter of beads...
...rate Hull is going, what needs protection most is the N.H.L. record book. With the aid of a specially curved stick designed by Stan Mikita, Bobby has developed his shooting skills to the point that he can make a puck do practically anything he wants: curve, sail, flutter unpredictably like a knuckleball in baseball, or dip suddenly about 6 in. just before it reaches...
...next day. Meanwhile the most seriously wounded were hoisted through the trees in wire baskets by rescue choppers hovering overhead. At first light next morning, seven more chain saws attacked the jungle, and at 10 a.m. the clearing was big enough for one MEDEVAC chopper at a time to flutter down and carry out the remaining casualties...