Word: grecians
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...presented in profile, in friezelike groupings; at other times, they marched flat-footed with hands on one another's shoulders, or with arms raised and palms held flat. The legendary quality of the production was reflected in the bulrush-brown and sea-green jerkins and the heavy curled Grecian wigs of gleaming copper and grape designed by Greek Artist Nico Ghika...
...German premiere of My Fair Lady, where he seized the opportunity for an intermission tete-a-tete with velvet-clad Ingrid Bergman, whose impresario husband, Lars Schmidt, was the show's producer. Topic of discussion between Ingrid (whose gown Mrs. Clay described as "a Grecian toga cut") and Clay: "only the show," which left German critics digging for superlatives last lavished on the works of Goethe...
...marble dressing table, sank into a 6-in.-deep sheepskin rug, powdered the antique balustrades cut from the top of Marion Davies' beach castle in Santa Monica, drifted across the lanai, with its his-and-hers swimming pools (Nat's adorned with an antique Grecian female statue, R.J.'s with a Greek male). The result was almost too predictable; the house and the Wagners' marriage fell apart simultaneously...
...share of the revenues from the new Garden to cut its operating loss on the station to $1,000,000 annually. Those who mourn Manhattan's disappearing architectural landmarks will not sigh long over the dilapidated Garden on Eighth Avenue, but will regret the leveling of the greyed, Grecian granite Penn Station, whose vaulted open arcade was modeled on the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla...
...First Lady's week in Greece was a respite after the rigors of her grand tour of the week before. When her husband flew back to the U.S., she lingered on in London for two days of rest and antique hunting. Then she flew off for her Grecian odyssey. Her companions were her sister and brother-in-law, Prince and Princess Radziwill; John Mowinckel, deputy public affairs officer with the USIA in Paris, and his wife. In Greece, Jackie was the official guest of Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, but being a poor man with only a small apartment...