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...displaying a love letter she received from Byron in the "gold and azure days'" of their love affair. Italian Composer Banfield's score offers some green and willowy moments of vocal beauty, but its lush-styled orchestration is finally too heavy for a Williams fancy as languid as summer, as wispy as smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the latest from e. e. cummings | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Making sure that U.S. newspapers noticed their annual convention in Portland next month, veterans of the island-hopping 41st Infantry Division issued a loud invitation to an old Pacific pal: Mrs. Iva Toguri D' Aquino, better known as the languid-toned Axis platter-puss, Tokyo Rose. Unperturbed by the fact that she would have to pay her own way from Chicago, Ex-Disk Jockey Rose said she would be interested- if some pesky federal deportation proceedings against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 30, 1958 | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Garden, with lush, languid music by Carlos Surinach, was a kind of lovelorn-columnist's tour of Eden, with Adam, Eve, Adams's legendary wife Lilith and a hor mone-happy stranger as the disturbed protagonists. In style it was light but pricked with wryly ironic wit. Clytemnestra, with a grindingly dissonant score by Egyptian Composer Halim El-Dabh, was a more impressive work and far more complex. Both its power and its tortuous complexities derived from Choreographer Graham's technique of unfolding the story as a memory of past events sounding shrilly in the echo chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Martha's Return | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...tell a woman's exact waist measurements in a chemise dress. But when she walks, it's evident she has a waistline. Similarly the bosom should be "just rounded." Too much of it "can ruin that fine, languid line," the fashion experts say. The attempt is undoubtedly to show that the wearer has a shape underneath her chemise dress, but to do it subtly...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: New Chemise Spells "Subtle Sex" | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

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