Word: hourglasses
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...colors, shapes and textures. Water runs down from the top, occasionally disappearing behind the granite. Flanking the middle section on either side are "gates" of travertine from Italy, Turkey and Iran. The inside edges of the travertine billow in and out like waves, or what Hadzi calls, "a gentle hourglass form; it takes you up and then it takes you down...
...vinegar and belladonna to achieve the Pre-Raphaelite "fatal slimness." The crowning, confining glory of Victoriana was the whalebone corset, which gave Actress Lillie Langtry her "ideal" 38-18-38 measurements, and which sometimes displaced internal organs. For some women, that was not enough: in pursuit of the hourglass figure they underwent surgical removal of their lower ribs...
...display their bodies as move comfortably in them, telegraphing their belief that they were a match for any man. In the '40s and '50s, the bazooka buxomness of Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield marked a reaction against equality; here was the milkmaid as sultry pinup. Now the hourglass is shattered. Says George Hurrell, the portrait photographer who for 60 years has celebrated Hollywood's full-figured stars: "In the '30s everything was round. It gave a body shape and shadow. Today, actresses are rid of hips and thighs and even busts...
...other, dressy clothes that tried to press people into patterns that they would put on their denims to break. This often meant endless variations on the Cardin suit, with its racetrack contours and crotch-cleaving pants that made any man, in profile, look like a bisected hourglass. For women, this meant extravagant and restrictive couture. Armani sensed that what was needed in clothes was something that looked "a little used, not absolutely perfect...
...successive summer afternoons in Central Park, the plot takes an hourglass turn. Lisa gradually breaks away for an affair with another man, and Philip is amazingly desolated. A night on the town so considerably assuages Michael's grief that when his wife calls up to tell him she is coming home, he is not sure that he wants her back...