Word: nightgowned
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...things turned out unhappily. The modern dancers who interpreted the New York premiere of Hovhaness' Meditations of Orpheus danced nimbly and well, but the choreography failed to suggest much beyond a battle over a nightgown. The gown was worn by Eurydice (Dancer Cora Cahan) over flesh-colored tights and, as New York Daily News Critic Douglas Watt observed, it seemed Orpheus wanted it. (P.S.: He got it.) Excerpts from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G were deformed by the Philharmonic's raucous and jarring performance...
...posters are rising everywhere. The Egyptian lies on her right side in a gold nightgown with a gold snake in her jet-black hair. The Roman leans broodingly over her, dressed for war in his deep purple cuirass...
...recent months, the revolution in chez nous apparel has spread to split-level suburbia and high-level city apartments. Although the one-piece version looks like a bathrobe and feels like a bathrobe, it is not a bathrobe because it 1 ) is not worn over a nightgown, and 2) costs more. But the price of hostess gowns is dropping as swiftly as their popularity is rising; last week Gimbels in Manhattan showed models costing less than $15 in its store windows. Fast catching up is a two-piece version-a full-length skirt worn with its own top or mixed...
...Sunday in the Loeb Drama Center when he delivers this year's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture. Mostel, now playing in the Broadway show "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," also played the roles in "Rhinoceros" and the original production of "Ulysses in Nightgown...
...Rousseau, dressed as the Marx brothers--Charisma is enchanted by the massively masculine figure of Beowulf ("a wandering ethos") who is followed by a broken-hearted lover, Grendel's mother ("mother of Grendel, an anti-social type"). The fair damsel was ravishing in green makeup, red eyes, a nightgown sort of thing and shocking pink tights. Several tutors got quite excited at this one and had to battle the marxists to get backstage...