Word: paling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this might have made an apt subject for contemplative derision had it not been for a solidly built man standing on a rock above the scene, wearing pale brown prescription glasses, a white lumber jacket, and a cowboy hat over hair that flew straight back like porcupine quills. This was George Stevens, beyond question the most respected and probably the most able director in the American film industry, whose reputation was assured by movies like A Place in the Sun and The Diary of Anne Frank. He is now risking it by betting that he can tell The Greatest Story...
...pale heroes, Miss Duckett does best by Hincmar, whose Annals are the major source of her book. Hincmar lived 74 years, spent 40 of them in Prankish courts and divided his time between dark treatises on predestination and darker plots. Hincmar's cold spirit is the only one that comes alive in the book and, seen in his final years, working tirelessly to bolster the inept rule of Louis the Stammerer, son of Charles the Bald, he seems the only man in the century who grew half the height of Charlemagne...
Dogs & Caterpillars. Stern is a tall, round-shouldered man with fat hands and "pale, spreading hips" whose job is to write descriptive literature on labels. His wife is large-eyed, long-nosed and sexy, his lonely eight-year-old son spends most of his time sucking on a blanket. Stern moves them to the suburbs, buys a house for $23,000, and at once begins to suffer the consequences...
...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...