Word: mannishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the question of the text included those allegedly alluding to sexual preference and behavior." I am very strongly attracted by members of my own sex; I would like to be a florist; and I like mannish women" are some of the questions Scondras' office said enable police to eliminate gays and lesbians from the police force...
...this strategy backfires. Brustein's carefully planned theoretical blueprint of the play is sabotaged by shoddy acting in several key roles. The chief blame rests with D'Aquila, whose mannish, histrionic performance never musters an ounce of sympathy. Her love affair with Alsemero (Harry S. Murphy) is discarded too early; and she changes into an evil murderess with only the slightest provocation, gushing at one point, "I am forced to love thee now for thou provides so well for mine honor...
...borrowings from Risky Business abound. The theft is evident immediately in the Tangerine Dream style opening score. By the time we hear the "Mannish Boy" of Muddy Waters accompanying the sports car's emergence from the house garage and the Epicurean philosophizing of Curtis Armstrong, who is again teaching his friend how to say "What the fuck," we know we are witnessing full-scale felony...
...first high fashion style of the Fifties was actually created in 1947 when Christian Dior showed his first collection. Dior presented a silhouette which became known as the "New Look." Half-a-century's development of the square, mannish, waistless woman was relinquished in a moment for this new ideal of feminine chic. It consisted of a tiny, nipped waist, rounded (even padded) breasts, rounded hips, and skirts which usually swept as low as eight to twelve inches from the floor...
...dominant one is meticulous tailoring. An outfit in loden green wool tweed, made for the Dior label, is a marvel of classic grace achieved through proportion and soft pleating. Pants, which Saint Laurent thinks may be his biggest contribution to fashion, have clear, economical lines, never exaggerated, never mannish. Good tailoring is behind what is truly his greatest influence on clothing, the huge (172 outlets) international string of Rive Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples in the museum show; Vreeland insists that the pieces...