Word: gown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...25th Red Cross Ball was also Princess Caroline's coming out party. Wearing a halter-necked Dior gown printed with huge daisies, she joined her parents in greeting the 500 guests, danced one dance with her father Prince Rainier, and then sat out the others at the royal table. There was a sprinkling of Princess Grace's friends from the old days, including Cyd Charisse, Tony Martin and Ginger Rogers. Only Kennedy Clan Favorite Andy Williams, who sang, got the attention of the very shy, very pretty princess...
Rosemary Murphy, also brought in for only one role, emphasizes the sensual side of Lady Macbeth. She enjoys wearing a revealing gown with an open V down to the navel. She likes physical touching: the feel of her own or Macbeth's hands running down her skin, the tousling of Macbeth's hair with her affectionate fingers...
Come nightfall, Bermuda shorts are sometimes exchanged for evening gown and tux for a trip to the casinos. To encourage a steady stream of new faces-and new money-there is a three-day parking limit on the Stardust grounds. Few campers stay that long; there is always someplace else to go. For some, keeping on the move is what it is all about. Foster Root, a retired salesman, sold his house in New Jersey and took to the road with his wife. "We're camping 52 weeks a year," he says, "until we decide where to live...
Fever. Kate Brown and the reader, accordingly, must face the shock of age, the loss of beauty, with dramatic speed. And if that means that the plot must groan like a Paris elevator, or the prose sometimes has to scuff along in rundown slippers and an old dressing gown, Doris Lessing has never been one to take the cosmetics of fiction seriously...
Those who hope to travel down memory lane with the score will find much of it a dusty detour. Only Alice Blue Gown, You Made Me Love You and the title song have survived 1919 with melodic vitality. Thanks be to Peter Gennaro's dance numbers for some lively eye openers at points in the story where one might be strongly tempted to doze off. They are executed with zest and finesse, and one number, The Riviera Rage, also possesses a saucy elegance...