Word: gown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career? Journalist Tony Scaduto's recent biography, Mick Jagger: Everybody's Lucifer, implies this could be so. Mick is quoted as saying, "I'm thinking about entering politics, but I haven't got the right wife." Indeed, BiancA, partying in a Zandra Rhodes gown, looked more like mad Ophelia than an M.P.'s consort...
...showboatery. Baryshnikov is a dancer of equal authority but far different style. He is short, and his slightly chunky body seems to belong to a superb athlete as well as an artist. He floated Makarova overhead as though she had no more substance than a chiffon gown. His phenomenal double turns in air and grands jetês were done with a breathtaking ease that did not call attention to itself. Yet he conveyed an almost electric impression of great power and speed, held in check by inner devotion to music and the needs of the drama...
...best is the classic Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown, in which a structural engineer confronts "the problem of designing a dress which appears as if it would fall at any moment and yet actually stays up with some small factor of safety." The solution lies in understanding the principle of the cantilever beam...
...Juliet's mother--who, it should be remembered, is herself only 28 years old--Carole Shelley is not yet entirely at ease in her lines; but she looks fine in her red-and-black gown, and her straight back speaks a thousand words. Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, is a man in his sixties. William Larsen, sporting a white beard, makes this well-meaning crank fully human; he does admirably with the blustering scene in which he sputters torrents of monosyllables at his headstrong daughter...
...KNEW LIFE wasn't going to be easy on the outside, especially when on the morning of commencement I found that my good ol' run-of-the-mill, blend-into-the-crowd cap and gown had, presto-chango, become a considerably fancier, stick-out-like-a-sore thumb Juris Doctor gown and cap two sizes too small for my head. At the time I confess I wasn't aware of the foul-up, but when I saw none of my neighbors wearing similar get-ups, I got a little concerned. "Oh, god! I'm a freak," I thought...