Word: lacing
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...heat of overhanging radiant coils. Along the broad Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...
...Actor Darin and Actress Dee, who are Mr. and Mrs. in real life too, just sort of stand there most of the time and look like Tweedle Dumb and Twiddle Dee. And the production, like all of Ross Hunter's productions (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace), is in the cheapest kind of expensive bad taste. It's the sort of picture, in short, in which the heroine wears 32 costumes but only one expression: goo-goo eyes...
...Street, that is the way Minsky wants it. The nearest thing to a striptease in the proceedings is a number in which a covey of chorus boys gingerly pluck parts of the costume from the frame of a stately brunette. She finally helps by sliding out of her black lace teddies unassisted, but it is all done in the brightest of spotlights and to the accompaniment, not of the traditional tummy-tossing tomtom beat but the blare of a stage band's pseudoprogressive jazz. It only seems like old times...
Shortly after war's end, he met Visconti and Fellini at Rome's University Theater Center, learned his craft on its stage in everything from Attic tragedy to Arsenic and Old Lace. His deaf mother and blind father would come to the theater, the one to see, the other to hear him. He made 50 films before La Dolce Vita, co-starring in several early ones with another beginner-Sophia Loren. He has high regard for her and she for him. She gets about $1,000,000 for a picture, and he gets around...
...fashioned valentines-dangles above. Flaking paint, wood grain, wormhole and lathe scar are meticulously recorded in sharp focus, yet there is an eerie, aching loneliness about the scene that no camera could ever convey. In Lady Fair the mood is pure fun. with its symbolic scrap of lace, a well-gnawed spare rib. and a blonde lock pinned on a brocade background along with a tattered French postcard (a small leaf has been taped in place for the sake of modesty), a reproduction of Ann Pollard, an anonymous American primitive painting of an old woman, and a snippet of Picasso...