Word: glittered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry Aldrich has combined crepes and satins with spangles of jet, gold and silver; John Moore...
...understated and (they hope) elegant look. Says Buyer Ligon: "The look is going to be the easy-to-wear one. There was a season, a couple of years ago, where fashions could hardly be worn, much less sold. Now the costume dress is in, with a lot of glitter. And the little black dress is back-simple, chic and pretty as can be. I couldn't be happier...
...Skiddy von Stade deemed "disappointing, and, to a great extent, baffling." 1961 placed the lowest percentages on the Dean's List in ten years--35.3 per cent--and gained the highest percentage of drop-outs in four years--2.8 per cent. The "diamonds in the rough" failed to glitter, at least during the first year...
With raw flair, swivel-hipped sex, lurid color and fundamental rhythms. King Kong has clapped a rough hand on English shoulders to lead its new audience through the shebeens (speakeasies) and back alleys around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they re-enact a primeval war dance; shebeen Delilahs strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road...
...such was Hyacinthe Rigaud, portraitist of the Marquis de Dangeau. Rigaud's primary purpose was obviously to flatter, but in so doing he threw all of Le Brun's strictures out the window. Voluptuous draperies billow in the background in the manner of Rubens. The gold and glitter become a feast not for the mind but the eye; color dominates form, and classicism surrenders to baroque self-indulgence. In few works of art was Louis' age of splendor shown up more clearly as the time of vanity...