Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Princeton leading the triple jump and only three running events remaining (including the Tigers' strength, the relays), the pre-meet predictions of a neck-and-neck finish looked accurate...
...care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance, Loretta Young wore a padded body suit to help make her long neck look shorter. Elizabeth Taylor required no padding for Cleopatra, but her 60 changes of costume presented a formidable challenge. "She was five feet two and had difficult proportions: high waist, large bosom, short arms, no behind but wide hips," snips Sharaff. "I was not awed...
...aisle door opened quietly. A large man padded gracefully in and paused behind the standees at the rear of the orchestra floor. He peered intently at the stage and listened. His blue shirt was open at the neck, and over it he wore a bright red cardigan. He could have been a stagehand out for a stroll. Instead, James Levine, the new music director of the Metropolitan Opera, was making his rounds. It was the season's last performance of The Barber of Seville. Levine had seen and heard it countless times before. That did not matter...
...there I'll see the hell-bent run of Klammer or the powerful grace of Sheila Young, or Dorothy Hamill blissfully fondling the golden dreams hanging around her neck. And perhaps I'll be able to see, through all my provincial prejudices, that those winter games aren...
...defense, and the girl who had listed her employment as "urban guerrilla" when she was arrested began to acquire a new look. Gone was the braless, T-shirted image; Patty took to appearing in court wearing a pantsuit and turtleneck, or a blouse with a flowing bow at the neck...