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...Jacobs was showing his spring 2008 collection for Louis Vuitton, was lined with giant pulp-romance-novel covers featuring lurid titles like Taipei After Dark and louche images of pinup girls in trashy lingerie. When 12 curvy models strutted onto the runway dressed in opaque white nurses' coats and prim white hats, their mouths covered with black-lace face masks, the audience might have imagined it was witnessing a 3-D rendition of artist Richard Prince's famous nurse-paintings series. And indeed, the real point of the evening was to create a setting for the multicolored handbags done...
...sure, there exists an image of how a conservative looks—or maybe, how a conservative should look. Here in the Northeast, this may include a splash of cable-chord or a dab of pearls. The image is neat, tidy, prim. And, of course, there is an idea of how a conservative behaves. Unlike his liberal cousin, who is an old hand at activism, the conservative’s means of discourse are more refined...
...just spill it right now: Elmore is a jewel. She was impeccable as Undine from delivery to mannerisms to facial expressions: prim and proper and more than a little snooty, but progressively sensitive. She was hysterical (in the sense of both being funny and prone to hysterics), a little hyperbolic, and very aggressive. Elmore won my wholehearted support from the moment that she declared, “My ancestors came to this country shackled,” and refused to accept that everything she had worked for was gone...
...some viewers, MASH was an exercise less in Olympian misanthropy than in leering misognyny, especially in its twitting of the prim Hot Lips Houlihan as a secret sexpot worthy of being exposed before the entire company as she took a shower. The curtain falls, Hot Lips is revealed naked, the medics applaud at their practical joke and feminism takes a nasty hit. (I could name one young bride who, after storming out of a screening room at the end of that shower scene, literally went home to her mother, telling her husband, "I don't want to live with someone...
...dancing flatware and jungle creatures flying through the air on bungee cords. But ever since the Walt Disney Co. discovered--first with Beauty and the Beast and most decisively, in 1997, with The Lion King--that its popular movies could have a long and profitable second life onstage, a prim English nanny has been waiting patiently in the wings. She was the star of one of the most beloved of all Disney movies, which boasted a made-to-order musical score--and real human characters to boot, who didn't need any tricky puppets or elaborate stage contraptions...