Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hilarious scene, the four ladies wear bright orange and green costumes and hold mirrors backed with the same material. Behind them, four effeminate hairdressers--two platinum blonds and two brunets--are working on their coiffures, whereupon Boyet arrives in a bathrobe of the same material...
...that "when an Isolde looks like a virago and Tristan looks like a Swedish masseur, the love scenes risk becoming grotesque, even comical." So he filled the leading roles with two American singers who were stunningly typecast. Isolde, Soprano Klara Barlow, 38, exhibited the leggy (5 ft. 11 in.), platinum-blonde beauty of a former chorus girl -which she is. As Tristan, Tenor Claude Heater, 38, had the squarejawed, rangy physique (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) of a former Marine-which...
...Wien Alaska's 81 pilots will continue to fly De Havilland Otters and Harland Skyvans. Their cargo may include anything from a load of snaggle-horned reindeer to groceries for Catholic missions at Eskimo villages on the Chuckchee Sea. Among their touchdown locations: Goodnews Bay, site of a platinum mine, and Katmai, where N.C.A. owns a world-famous trout camp. In 1967, Wien hauled some 5,000 passengers on its packaged Arctic tour, winding up at the line's Kotzebue Hotel location...
...millions and the freedom of socialites in her honey-raucous voice. Clearly the voice does not belong to Anastasia. Hunter may be suggesting a parallel between Hip and High Society (the connections are not so slim, Jim, but there is no space to make them here), or perhaps some platinum vein in Anastasia's mind...
...With the 1930s being revived in fashion," says Dabbie Daniels, a senior decorator at Manhattan's W & J Sloane, the nation's oldest home furnishing house, "I think we will see 1930s rooms with lots of white and silver and mirrors-very Jean Harlow, very much the platinum movie-goddess look of opulence...