Word: gorgeousity
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...duped "cinema" students taking copious notes. Freudian symbolism gushes from every object close-up: the postcard nudes looking like overripe cherubs, the town philosopher walking his black Great Dane, the chamber pots that our protagonists keep filling with pure water. One bit of this spoof is priceless: after some gorgeous but solemn footage of a French museum, Borowczyk has one of his characters distractedly walk right into the lap of a painted reclining nude...
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...elaborate ready-to-wear versions, which will be available at the Saint Laurent boutiques, will run customers well over $1,000. At the same time, the impracticality of the huge multilayered skirts may confound all but the most dauntless of Saint Laurent's private clients. "It's gorgeous but it's unwearable," complained one buyer. Said a rich client, "I buy clothes to travel, and with this collection it is one dress for one suitcase. This may bring back the steamer trunk...
Amiable Lies. There are a couple of funny baseball stories in Some Champions. Lardner's hero is the stalwart Keefe, who has a nice smile and a gorgeous head of bone. He brags in a letter to Friend Al that he is in line for a big raise if he beats the Red Sox. The date of the story-roughly 1918-can be guessed from the fact that the Boston pitcher is Babe Ruth, who had not yet switched to the Yankees and the outfield, and from the size of the big raise-$600, bringing Keefe to the affluence...
...confounded its opponents. Federal Aviation Administration officials reported that the planes made less noise than a Boeing 707, one of the largest standard jets in general use. Spectators on the ground below the planes' landing path expressed surprise at finding the sound levels bearable. "I thought it was gorgeous," said a woman living in a nearby trailer park. "It wasn't bad at all. It wasn't worse than the other planes...