Word: isadora
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...were no match for some of the costumes in "American Women in Style," the new show that opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute last week. The main attractions of the exhibit, organized by Diana Vreeland, were the eloquently unfettered wardrobes of two great dancers. Isadora Duncan, a free-spirited sensation of La Belle Epoque, considered herself built along the lines of the Venus de Milo and often performed her astounding dances wearing nothing but a chiffon shawl. In an adjoining room, the eye-popping costumes of St. Louis-born Folies-Bergère Dancer Josephine...
...Flanders fields. He does provide what passes for the central dramatic point of the first episode by leaving a formal dinner party to visit a cathouse. As for his sisters, they are an equally sorry lot: Fawn is a free spirit who seems to be modeling herself on Isadora Duncan; she is having it off with her singing coach. Rosamund is having a bit of a jounce with the chauffeur, and there is a granddaughter who quickly takes up with his replacement. In short, the Lassiters are a bunch of sex maniacs...
...Phillips, 31, who co-produced The Sting with her now estranged husband Michael, shares her rented Beverly Hills home with Actor Gregory Johnson and her daughter Kate, 1%. She is considering Actresses Barbra Streisand, Brenda Vaccaro, Goldie Hawn and more than a dozen others for the leading role of Isadora Wing, but has not made up her mind. She and Screenwriter Jong are tempted to give the story a women's-lib climax. "We both want Isadora to get on a plane, fly without fear and leave both men. We want a more exhilarating feeling...
...wave the flag or concentrate on Americana, though Leonard Bernstein is setting to music poems by eight favorite writers, including Whitman and Poe. Dominick Argento and Vivian Fine are writing chamber operas respectively on Chekhov's monologue On the Harmfulness of Tobacco and Famous Women (Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, Virginia Woolf). For a touch of Shakespeare, Alan Hovhaness and John Harbison are at work on operas based on Pericles and The Winter's Tale, though Harbison picked his play four years ago. Out in Seattle, the Eastern-inspired Hovhaness is also writing An Ode to the Cascade Mountains...
Actress Shirley MacLaine lost her fear of flying long before Erica Jong's heroine Isadora Wing began cuddling her banalities and faking worldliness like a high school girl boasting about lost virginity. In fact, MacLaine's life far exceeds the fantasies that the fictional Isadora plays out hi Fear of Flying. At 40, MacLaine is an enviable example of the liberated quadraphonic life: a film star who could command $800,000 a movie, a wife and mother who appears to operate a successful open marriage, and a citizen who served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention...