Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woman in a Loge" a young woman in her 20s sits in her theater box facing us, wearing an off-the-shoulder pink gown and holding her fan on her lap. Even here, Cassatt is already experimenting with color. Cassatt employs bright tones; a red flower on the woman's dress echoes the rich red of the velvet chair behind her. More striking, however, than Cassatt's choice of bright colors is her manner of achieving these tones. The blues and yellow of the theatre walls, reflected in a mirror behind the young woman, reappear as blue and yellow tones...
Shakespeare also showcased Powell's obsession with detail. In the film, the dressing gown worn by Gwyneth Paltrow appears to be festooned with iridescent jewels--but they are actually dried beetle wings, intended to replicate Elizabethan materials. When Paltrow's character pretends to be a boy, she wears a top with embroidery delicate enough to remind us that she is female. But Powell also put birdseed pouches in the crotch of Paltrow's breeches so the actress would remember to walk like...
...rhinestones without accompanying mohawk. Lipstick must never match the dress, unless both are fire-engine red. Then you must wear matching nail polish as well. Never go to a hairdresser for an event that calls itself a formal, and just say no to nude stockings. As for the gown itself, well, bubble skirts are ironic. Puffy sleeves...
...never fails. You're sitting in your doctor's examining room wrapped in a paper gown. You've asked every question you can think of and tried to absorb the rapid-fire answers. But when you get home, you realize there's one maybe-not-so-urgent item you left out. Do you a) call your doctor's office and play telephone tag for the next three days, or b) log on to the Internet and seek out an online physician...
Another project that has the potential to sour town-gown relations is the University's Allston land purchases. Harvard ran afoul of the Allston/Brighton community and Boston City Hall on this issue; when the University disclosed in June 1997 that it had secretly purchased 52 acres in Allston between...