Word: haute
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relocating to Broadway, requires a fashionmonger's scrutiny. As a psycho-drama of the good old school, this three-person play is unmistakably out-of-date. But double-breasted jackets with padded shoulders, which went out decisively after the '40s, are currently enjoying a big vogue in the very haut-est of designer salons. So, perhaps, Agnes of God might take the theater world by storm and herald the revival of the psychodrama as a popular form...
...make the reader feel a part of it. ("When I was investigating General Mercier, the Minister of War who was responsible for the original condemnation of Dreyfus and who in the course of the Affair became the hero of the Right, I discovered that at parties of the haut monde ladies rose to their feet when General Mercier entered the room. That is the kind of detail which to me is worth a week of research.") The result of her research, her patience and talent is history, but history that often "evokes" as much as it "tells...