Word: laurenized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regard for facts of your reporter. One thing, however, is certain; Padan Aram The Harvard Literary Review looks forward is returning to the College in our new format, with our pages organized and our bills paid. Erie-Steven Gutierrez, Senior Editor Nick Isbell, Business Mgr. Elizabeth Frost, Poetry Editor Lauren Pitteill, Publisher...
...reason is obvious: the show is high-proof, often lethal fun. Before the evening is through, the talented five-member cast has toppled icons up and down the Great White Way, everybody from those women of the year, Lauren Bacall and Raquel Welch, to those women of every year, Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. In a crater-deep voice, Nora Mae Lyng, 30, imitates Bacall in Woman of the Year...
...midst of a disappointing season for new plays, Manhattan stage producers are relying on a gimmick to sustain interest in current hits: hiring pop-identifiable personalities to take over major roles. To wit, Debbie Reynolds will replace Raquel Welch who replaced Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year. Teenswooner Andy Gibb is now headlining Broadway's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and yes, no less than Bert Convy, the chirpy host of TV's Tattletales, is replacing Raul Julia for two weeks in the musical Nine. Of all the recent replacements, however, the most interesting...
...Happiest Lady: Raquel Welch, who followed Lauren Bacall as Woman of the Year and broke all box-office records at Broadway's Palace Theater...
Nothing wrong with that, up to a point, and nothing wrong with the hero worship of fashion designers. They are every bit as deserving of celebrity as the celebrities they dress. One begins to wonder only when such fashion kings as Pierre Cardin, Givenchy, Bill Blass and Ralph Lauren bestow the knighthood of their labels on wines, automobiles, chocolates or home fashions. It merely makes these things fashionable, which is not enough. Caveat emptor. Enjoy the presumed prestige, but do not confuse high-priced celebrity labels with design...