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Other Saint Laurent signatures show up early. One is the "little black dress," a Chanel revolution in the '20s and '30s, when it symbolized the offhand smartness of the modern workingwoman. Saint Laurent reigns over this much copied genre, because it seems to fit his double-sided vision of women-as ladies and as tramps. He has confected delicate, gauzy little nothings, sculpted bold ones, produced sexy variations and tarted up a few that can only be called sleazoid...
...danger to American citizens and the formal request for aid. When the forces arrived in Grenada, and turned up several hundred Cubans and 30 Soviet military advisors, it was dubbed a lucky break and officials declared that the size of the Cuban presence, earlier referred to in an offhand manner, came as surprise. One can only remember, with a certain strong sense of embarrassment, the statement by the Russians that they were "invited in" to Afghanistan and Poland...
...woman so blind to her husband's sins that she might easily seem pathetic, Martha Henry radiates strength, grace and throbbing-voiced appeal. In Dilemma's other exacting role, Brent Carver finds the scapegrace charm and wit of the dying young artist but just misses the offhand incandescence that would fit the repeated description of him as a genius. Phillips has acted the part himself, to acclaim, and knows that the character's simultaneous power to seduce and appall an audience is vital to the play's debate...
...winter of 1982-83: a small affair, only seven pieces, but certainly the most delectable show to be seen in downtown Manhattan this summer. Shields has been showing on the international circuit for years, and his arrays of irregular patches and ribbons of stained canvas, sewn together with an offhand and improvisatory air, misled some critics into thinking of him as a kind of craftsy '60s bricoleur fiddling with mandalas by the seaside. (The sight of Shields, 6 ft. 4 in., with his shaven bronze dome of a head, nautical beard and Queequeg-like mien, daintily stitching...
Henry Rosovsky stirred up a good deal of publicity with an offhand remark he made soon after becoming dean of the Faculty in 1973. "One thing that depresses me about this job is feeling like a dentist," he said. "Every half hour another person comes in, leaving little time for contemplation...