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Joan Diener in the title role is tall, white-blonde, gorgeous, and unquestionably a mammal; she can launch my ships anytime. But she has been constrained (by the script, perhaps, or by Mr. Marre, or by her own predilections) to play Helen with an icy hauteur that eliminates the possibility of any emotional response from the audience except pure lust. Perhaps it is too much to ask, but it would be nice to have a Helen who is likable as well as desirable. On her own terms, however, Miss Diener acts quite well enough, and her singing is not unpleasant...
...revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air. And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself-Yea, all which it inherit-shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep...
Dandyism flourished, exquisite and exclusive, until the passage of the Reform Bill in 1832 (which shifted the balance of power from the Lords to the Commons). Such men as "Poodle" Byng, ''Apollo" Raikes, and the gorgeous Count D'Orsay followed or improved upon Brummell's styles; collars, stiff with whalebone, rose above the ears, cravats required pounds of starch, and coats became bosomy with padding. French aristocrats, in a wave of Anglophilia, embraced the fad-although, the author notes, they confused the thin-wristed dandy with his county cousin, the fox-hunting buck...
...National City Bank of New York. Ralph Leach, vice president and treasurer of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., agreed. Said he: "I don't look for a downturn. If everything isn't going through the ceiling, people think business is lousy. This is nonsense. We're in gorgeous shape as far as the overall outlook for the year is concerned." Actually, the easing credit was one reason for optimism. Most economists think that the current dip is only temporary. The drop was caused chiefly by record corporate earnings and slower-than-expected inventory accumulation, which have increased...
...flannel bellyband for her favorite soldier, the theory being that it would keep out tropical fevers by day and the jungle damp by night. Private Charles Johnson Post was especially lucky. True, he had no ammunition when he left for the Spanish-American War, but he did have two gorgeous red bellybands...