Word: muumuus
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...chic to look like a helium-inflated polyester balloon. It is no longer necessary, either. Fashion, like Big Business generally, has had to make its own adjustments to maternity. And where fashion has not provided, fashion has been ignored. The racks still hold their share of flapping, color-blind muumuus that-depending on the relative age and condition of the wearer-proclaim either an imminent arrival, an imperative diet or a Tupperware cookout after sundown. Increasingly, though, women are working at their careers until very near delivery, and they need clothes to get the job done. "It seems...
Where were the lawyers? In the surf, on Waikiki beaches or strolling along Kalakaua Avenue with their families, decked out in colorful sports shirts for the men and matching muumuus for their wives. Outgoing A.B.A. President Chesterfield Smith of Lakeland, Fla., called the no-show performance "deplorable, disgraceful and regrettable." All this past year Smith had been doing his feisty best to stir colleagues into facing up to the public suspicion and derision heaped on lawyers since Watergate. The beach bliss-out was a response the profession can ill afford...
With apologies to the Gay Liberation movement, this funny and affectionately bitchy play might better have been called My Fag Friend. Lynn Redgrave is supposedly the star of the proceedings-a pathologically tubby bookstore owner who 1) outgrows muumuus as she miserably devours chocolates; 2) meets and falls in love with an itinerant oil geologist; 3) heroically goes off her feed in order to turn herself into what looks like a young Angela Lansbury, only to discover 4) that her lover, back from prospecting in Iran, actually prefers fat girls, whereupon 5) the cellulite freak abruptly departs...
Although her clients are mostly "new" Hollywood, Mengers, 36, is a throwback to the more flamboyant, flesh-peddling days of the studio moguls. At 5 ft. 2½ in. and 160 Ibs., usually billowing in a sea of muumuus and caftans, she is sometimes seen as a cross between Mama Cass and Mack the Knife. She has the soft, breathy voice of a little-bitty girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character...
Whenever a dull moment threatens, Hill rummages around in Michener's bottomless bag of epic tricks and comes up with windstorms, conflagrations, eruptions, street fights, breech births, shark attacks, luaus, lava-lavas and assorted shouts and muumuus-not to mention a large number of young wahines who appear in a state of nature and fill the giant screen with impressive outcroppings of what Hawaiians call papaia. What's more, the principals play with aplomb. Julie Andrews brings both sensuality and sensibility to a role that might easily have wallowed in sweetness and light. And Von Sydow is superb...