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...benefit of hermits, Mame is sort of a superannuated Sally Bowles, an addled adventuress who nurtures her orphaned nephew Patrick in her own freewheeling ways. Mame is supposed to lead a lavishly bohemian life, although her pranks and her parties as shown here would not look outré even to a congregation of missionaries. Patrick, however, remains wide-eyed with wonderment over the decades and throughout excursions down South (where Mame marries into Southern gentility) and up North to Connecticut, where she exposes the family of his affianced as a bunch of bigoted yahoos. The movie spans about 20 years...
...more effective beginnings in La Dolce Vita, when Anita Ekberg galloped up to the dome of St. Peter's dressed in a parody of a priest's outfit. Fellini even teases us by reprising a melody from La Dolce Vita as the clergy parade in their outré regalia...
There were always a few hostess gowns around, worn by the outré set, but in 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...
...best English fashion to be entertainingly easygoing. In a generally good cast Patricia Jessel achieves some real acting as the enigmatic wife; and as defense lawyer, Francis Sullivan is full of delightful courtroom wiles and histrionics. All of Witness for the Prosecution is classically rendered, with no outré horrors or ultramodern gruesomeness, and with no need...
Nonsense, says Ong. Wonder Woman is only a female Superman, preaching "the cult of force, spiked, by means of her pretentiously scanty 'working' attire, with a little commercial sex. . . . When not in her outré 'working' clothes she habitually wears a suitcoat and tie among the jeweled guests at luncheon parties and at formal evening affairs...