Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carney and his fellow actors create sporadic moments of ringing laughter and poignance. They are, in fact, better than the plays. Friel's language has a Gaelic thrust and lilt, but his lace-curtained Irish dramas could easily have been written three decades ago. Unfortunately, what was valid in the '30s seems pallid...
Horse-show habits are so humdrum these days-all jodhpurs and jackets and little black caps. But the equestrian quadrille calls for costumes as well as class, and Britain's Princess Anne, 17, was making the most of it prettily dressed in a grey brocade Georgian coat, lace jabot, tricorn hat and wig. To the strains of Strauss, she and three chums put their mounts through the paces, and when the day's events were over, young Anne had won the Senior Individual and Training Cup, a nice surprise to take home to her horse-loving parents...
...Putting lace on a neckline that goes down to the navel is confusing and contradictory. It's a conflict of interest-sort of like wearing a see-through robe in the church choir. What's more, it's hard on the eyes...
...said. "It might sound fabulous, but you can't imagine how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world. I always travel with my tape recorder, radio, camera, ten framed pictures of my family, my very own lace pillow, three hair dryers, six hairpieces, and masses of knitting I know I'll never finish." Britt had some other complaints too. "I don't like the way he allows his life to be governed by soothsayers," she said, harking back to the time he grew so superstitious over the malevolence...
...singing, an unsteady theft of melody." His adventures in adultery are an almost accidental byproduct of his own spiritual confusion, his wife's complicated sexual indifference and the irresistible why-not willingness of the women around him. "Georgene had brought to their affair, like a dowry of virginal lace, this lightness, this guiltlessness." Piet responds not to the excitement but to the wondrous ease of it all, the astonishing luxury of fornication with eager women behind bedroom walls apparently opaque to the fierce eye of his Calvinist...