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...charming character of her paramour (played, in the film, by Melvyn Douglas); poor Ninotchka, it appears, has been kept on to provide an excuse for calling Silk Stockings an "adaptation." And her ton is just a hell of a lot different from everybody else's ton--she is a pale blossom in a jungle of burly...
Trend setters in search of trends to set have a tough time of it with women's fashions. Sometimes the group will go along with the gag (pale, pale lipstick), sometimes not (the trapeze line). A marvelously effective trend often consists simply in reviving something old and already a proven success-like the one-piece tank suit. But best of all is the trend that never quite was a trend, the standby dress that has hung there in the back of the closet for years, always ready to be pulled out and made a fad of. This year, finally...
...legend about the dark mysteryland. The swamp water is perfectly potable and is famed for its long-staying qualities of freshness, but it looks as if it had been pumped from an outhouse. For years, the swamp's vegetation was supposed to be an unequaled medicine chest. The pale blue hepatica, with leaves shaped like the lobes of the liver, was good for any liver disorder. Virginia Bluebell cured chest ailments. The common yellow yarrow was standard treatment for toothache...
Nijinsky & James Dean. In London and on the Continent, the only classical male dancer who can match Nureyev's popularity is Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Pale, hollow-cheeked and shaggy-haired, Nureyev radiates a kind of savage excitement that he himself describes as a "mixture of tenderness and brutality." It has prompted comparisons with Nijinsky and even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite...
...pale moonlight...