Word: nightgown
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...exits and entrances are well-timed, although slowed by the audience's initial reactions to Burton (who looks graceful and distinguished in a tuxedo, though his shoe-heels are about three inches too high for the 1930s of Private Lives) and Taylor, who enters confidently in a low-cut nightgown and robe. But, in keeping with the tone of the evening. Taylor soon changes into a Theoni Aldredge purple sequined gown that, were the actors not a hundred feet away, would undoubtedly become her violet eyes...
...from the end of a bed in their house. "One set of legs slid off, and up stood a woman totally naked," said Anderson, who later identified Jacqueline as the owner of the limbs. "Then the other set of legs stood up. It was Roxanne in a very sheer nightgown." Jacqueline, who was to have taken the stand, sent regrets through her doctor, who stated that she was suffering from "total exhaustion." Final summaries by attorneys portrayed their clients as Godfearing homebodies who had been reluctantly dragged into the fast lane by their spouses. Specifically, Roxanne's lawyer portrayed...
...finding parking space, spending hours to find the objects he seeks and quite possibly dealing with surly salesclerks in jampacked retail stores. Those catalogues, offering everything from $29 anoraks to $4 Zippo lighters, have become a major factor in the U.S. economy. As subtly and sneakily as a falling nightgown strap from the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue, they have exerted a refreshing influence on American consumers and their style...
...wild over the incident. The Sun, whose more than 4 million daily circulation is the largest in the country, is said to have paid Fagan's wife, Christine for the rights to her story and proceeded to tantalize readers with tacky comments: the Queen was wearing a shortie nightgown at the time; she had the figure of a 16-year-old; her wig, so Fagan purportedly told Christine, was sitting in her room. Other papers made much of the fact that Elizabeth and Prince Philip obviously have separate bedrooms. Pondered the Daily Mirror too ponderously: "Separate beds. How important...
...trousers, she explains. "Well, what did you expect me to do? I couldn't very well ask him to take his trousers off--a man I'd only just met." She is similarly naive about walking around in front of Hochepaix, a political enemy of her husband, is her nightgown and repeating all the terrible things her husband said about him before he arrived...