Word: mannishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominance of the fashion world; of liver cancer; in Paris. A onetime architectural student who apprenticed to Couturiers Molyneux and Lucien LeLong before opening La Maison Pierre Balmain in 1945, he was one of those who introduced the postwar soft, feminine "new look," a welcome relief from the severe, mannish lines of the 1930s and 1940s. His subtly tailored suits and classic dresses could be worn from one year to the next, reflecting Balmain's wish to be timeless rather than trendy, elegant rather than eclectic. "In this heady adventure," he once said of designing, "the most difficult thing...
...series of tributes to the group's spiritual homeland. (See review below.) As always, the music bears a mixture of sentiments: raucous enthusiasm tempered by ironic self-knowledge. The Stones appreciated the distance between themselves and the songs they sang from the start: Mick Jagger was not the first Mannish Boy, after...
Hers was a fervor that transcended sex; to a '30s movie audience it may have looked threatening, even mannish. She was the most aggressive and patrician of the '30s liberated ladies, and moviegoers wanted some extraordinary ordinary guy to sweep her off her pedestal and bring her down to earth. In the '30s that man was Gary Grant, a spirit as blithe as Hepburn's and a lot breezier. In the '40s and beyond, it was Spencer Tracy, the stolid, sensitive man of whom Laurence Olivier said: "I've learned more about acting from watching Tracy than in any other...
...revealing perspective on the private lives and individual psyches that made up the group. He lets Jagger and Jones speak for themselves on their power struggle early on and describes the brilliant efforts of producer Andrew Loog Oldham to package his charges as popular music's bad little mannish boys. And then, once those boys grew up, came the years totally clouded over by drugs, debauchery, and disillusionment, leading ultimately to Brian's death and the rebirth of the others. Struggling to reassert themselves, the Stones were forced to confront a new problem: how to keep the act spontaneous...
...form on the latest album, using his own retreat from hard living to keep the Stones driving forward with a thumping blues number like "Black Limousine." As Richards and fellow guitarist Wood churn out a roughly meshed combination of thick rhythm and screaming leads, the mannish boy mourns...