Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Empress' tiara, fortunately, was safe in the bank vault when the jewel thieves struck. But there had been an uneasy moment last year when Sonny's wife No. 3, Eleanor Searle Whitney, told a columnist that the tiara was a gift Sonny had bought for her. Marylou would have none of it. Said she: "Sonny bought it as an investment. And I must say, the pleasure of wearing it is delicious...
...however, it is the kids themselves who provide the ring of truth. Mulligan did his casting on the city's streets, and coaxed from a group of inexperienced youngsters (some of whom showed up for work with switchblades) a series of magnificent life studies. One unforgettable moment: Ellen O'Mara as the Fat Girl, at a school dance in the arms of the English teacher (Patrick Bedford) she idolizes, her square pudding face aglow in awe and beatification. At such moments, rare in cinematic annals, the camera uses unadorned reality as its point of departure and comes around...
...there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance out of it. Even then, it's a roll of the dice." And while the dice are in the air, anyone-for one brief Mittyesque moment-can be Bus Mosbacher, sailing out of Newport for the America...
Paraphanalia had a very wild opening fashion show last Saturday, even by Blow-up standards. The models zipped out, danced for a moment to a blaring band on a platform in front of projections showing shots of Cambridge, like the back room of Cronin's, and then zipped back-in. Sixty-five changes in 37 minutes--a new record in the fashion world. "Some of the merchants and columnists who came weren't exactly happy," said store looked crazy--big and white, and Cy Harvey. "Everybody thought the designed to let the clothes speak for themselves. But yesterday...
...rare moment of frankness, a Harvard student was talking about life in the dorm. "It's not so much that people appear self-conscious," he said, "though of course they are, but that people are devastatingly image-conscious. You are typed and categorized according to the front you present, and forevermore you are put in the arty set or with the heads or among the wonks or jocks. You can't stand naked before anyone but your roommates and your girlfriend. You are given an identity which you begin to believe in yourself, and once you're in that...