Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medium heels, particularly the Louis height, are proving increasingly popular, but the delicacy of high heels still seems to be most appropriate for formal and cocktail wear...
...days and nights an army of volunteer floodfighters, under U.S. Army Engineers, swarmed to the levees to buttress their ramparts against "C-Hour" ("C" for crest). Flashboards (double wooden fences with earthen fill between) were thrown up to give the dikes more height. Trucks and bulldozers worked around the clock, pushing up secondary levees wherever the battering flood water weakened the primary wall...
Aida has had her face lifted. The stunning new decor and costumes by Rolf Gerard, and the dramatic staging of Margaret Webster demonstrate that Broadway techniques can effectively be applied to grand opera. The height of voluptuousness came in the first scene of Act Two. Blanche Thebom may not be the world's most beautiful Amneris, but when I saw her lounging on her divan being fanned and bathed by dozens of slaves, I couldn't help wondering why Radames chose the rotund Aida instead...
...extravagance of Blake's fantasies (and his anticlerical vehemence) blinded his contemporaries to the height and depth of his spirit. In Blake's wide eyes, human beings were vessels of immortal life, beset with evil yet striving mightily for the divine implanted within them. He painted them that...
...appeared to be about eight years old. When the authorities at Austria's Wagna refugee camp tried to question him, he could only stare at them with round, uncomprehending eyes. At last his data was entered in the records: "Name-unknown; parents-unknown; place of birth-unknown; height-141 centimeters. Identifying features: scar on chin; scar on belly. Deaf and dumb...