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...much more primitive way of making clothes-simple and functional yet sophisticated." And versatile. Fashions like Hitchcock's side-wrapped, hip-length "Tibetan" jacket can be worn year-round. Moreover, the less extreme Chinese fashions seem unlikely to go out of style. The look, says Joan Sibley, of Sibley & Coffee, a Manhattan design firm, "is elegant and classic. It is not really...
...says Brand, is "having an opportunity to see how another culture operates." Among ins discoveries: spacemen are far better known in Russia than in the U.S. Not much interested in publicity inmself, Brand likes to spend ins free tune outdoors-inking, camping, canoeing and siding, often with ins wife Joan and their four cinldren...
...arch and witty but secretly vulnerable Kay--a role that was written for Gertrude Lawrence--has a some what more difficult job; by the end of the play, all the male characters are pledging her their undying devotion, she plays the part with the languid voice of Joan Greenwood and the elegant mannerisms of Maggie Smith, but it's only during her solos--particularly the hauntingly beautiful "Someone To Watch Over Mc"--that her character develops the necessary magnetic appeal. Both Witham and McCarthy have excellent voices, and their duets are some of the high points of the show...
...time to protest British rule over the subcontinent, and she spent an intense, unhappy childhood prematurely immersed in the politics of rebellion. "I have no recollection of games, children's parties or playing with other children," she once said. "All my games were political ones-I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake...
...Galloway's Joan is casually approachable in precisely this way. What Galloway does not project is any hint of spirituality or vulnerability. Perhaps the din of forensic rhetoric that dominates this production prevents her from hearing any inner voices. Tom Kneebone makes of the Dauphin a mixture of skittish cravenness and caustic venom, while William Needles' inquisitor is magisterially forbidding. The rest of the cast act like shrill contenders in a debating contest, but that may stem in part from George Bernard Shaw the street-corner agitator...