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...deep-diving décolletage of her costumes in Cleopatra, Cinemactress Liz Taylor, 28, swathed herself in black from rain-hatted head right on down past pelvis-hugging slacks to cowboy-booted toes, joined Husband Eddie Fisher, 33, on a shopping expedition in Rome. Even in this relatively chaste garb, Liz proved capable of disrupting traffic, had to leap from the path of a gaping motorist who forgot for a moment where his brake...
...Byzantium, and to the palaces of the Moors. But for all its diversity, it had one central inspiration. Over 900 years ago, commenting on the surge of building that had swept over Europe, a monk named Glabro said: "It is as if the world, shaking itself from its ancient garb, had redressed itself in the white mantle of the new churches...
...many as four weddings a day") is pushing two new gimmicks for her clients: a layer of frozen wedding cake for presentation to the bride and groom as a first-wedding-anniversary present, and a tape-recorded You Are There commentary by a mellifluous announcer who describes the garb, step, and emotional tone of the whole wedding party. Mrs. Doran advises parents to keep the recording a secret until there are rumors of discord in the newlyweds' happy home. "If the young couple have been squabbling," she says, "you'd be surprised how quickly playing that record straightens...
...wheeled on her preying pursuers, snapped, "I am not a rare animal," later tearfully told a reporter, "Help me go away and find a quiet place, because otherwise I'll lose my mind." Laying over briefly at the same terminal, Katharine Hepburn was equally distraught. Wearing a safari garb that turned out to be appropriate for the jungle war that en sued, she streaked through the airport, hid out in a washroom, was finally foiled only after ducking into a plane that turned out to be the wrong one. Ground ed and surrounded, Kate tried to nutter one shutter...
EXETER: Peter Sellers, This one's called TWO STRETCH, and allows the peritic Peter to don prison garb in er to spoof English thrillers, incidentally, English penal intions. Evenings...