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...picks up a handkerchief with her teeth. But she shines in Soul in Search, satirizing the Dark Meadows dance in which Martha Graham rolls herself up in a black cloth which seems to symbolize the labyrinths of a frustrated libido. As Iva Kitchell, hopelessly mired in yards of purple muslin, thrashes about on the floor, she suddenly calls out: "Who am I-that seeks and searches and never finds? . . . Where shall I seek? Where shall I search? . . . Is it here where I am-or am I? Is it there? . . . " Soon she is crawling about the stage on her hands...
...size dwarfs hers. To dress her own vast proportions as handsomely as possible, Traubel has all her clothes-including her stage costumes-designed by Hollywood's Adrian. In the sewing room of Adrian's chic pastel salon, there is a headless and barrel-chested, size 46, grey muslin model standing majestically between those of Claudette Colbert, size 32, and Norma Shearer, size 32. Adrian's loose-leaf notebook lists the Traubel specifications after those for "Temple, Shirley." They tell a sizable story: "Bust, 51 inches [Shirley's is 34"]; waist, 45½ inches; upper hips...
...over the rural U.S., the alarm spread: the gaily printed cotton flour sack, time-tested foundation of the nation's farm fashions, was going out with the white flour. According to the crossroad rumors, the recent dark-flour order (see BUSINESS) had caused U.S. millers to substitute plain muslin, disdainfully stamped EMERGENCY FLOUR, for the gay old bags...
...supper picnics beside the river, return on the ebb with laughter [and] soft choruses muted to a twilight mood and to the rhythm of oars that dipped into pools of phosphorescence [with the] young and fair moving in bevies and clusters on a green lawn in frocks of sprigged muslin . . . wide floral hats . . . sunshades of all bright colors . . . scarves that lift or float in a light breeze as they meet, part, draw together again...
...showed in a public exhibition inspired ridicule, even some alarm, in critics and public alike. That figure was the famed Ballet Dancer, Dressed (see cut). He first modeled the homely, arrogant little dancer in the nude, then, with breath-taking disregard for tradition, dressed her in linen waist and muslin skirt. The public was more amazed by the covering of this figure (solemnly exhibited like a doll dressed in real clothes) than it usually is by decent, or even indecent, exposure. Degas never again exhibited his sculpture...