Word: puce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effortless, Cragun tactfully puts a matinee idol's figure at the service of his roles, making Romeo, Petruchio and even Onegin believable and remarkably affecting. The marvel, though, is Marcia Haydée. Experts correctly point out that she is not a great dancer technically. Most would turn puce at the thought of mentioning her in the same breath with Margot Fonteyn. But few dancers within memory have projected the rangi of whims and wishes or invoked the delicate interplay of emotions that flow from the least gesture of Haydée's body, the slightest tilt...
...wolf, monkey, weasel, bull and yak. Without examining the label, however, even a zoologist would have trouble identifying the newcomers. For the furs have become checked, striped, flowered and wholly unrecognizable. Mostly they have been dyed. The dusty drabs have all but vanished; mink has gone pink, and puce, and pimento, and so has everything else. There is aquamarine beaver, lavender chinchilla and ore number, of Manchurian weasel, in a curious, yellow...
...Colin Blakeley) crash-land their nuclear weaponry on a mythical Greek island and spend the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties, fishnet T shirts, lavender and puce shorts. Backing them up is an inconstant nympho (Candice Bergen) who moves with the natural fluid grace of a hand puppet...
...benefit in Washington. But an evildoer took his picture. Would the caped commissioner repeat the act before the Women's National Democratic Club as requested? Would the network archenemies of ABC-TV's Batman think the chairman was giving dastardly publicity to the bat channel by wearing puce powder-blue tights? Gleeps! Henry decided to stay out of the women's club show. From now on he'll stick close to his cave...
...show. Her skin should be olive, her anchor desk light mahogany. The set is still performing 17 hours later if Johnny Carson signs off sunburned behind a light green desk. For fans who tune in late on thin-skinned shows, color Lassie strawberry blond and Batman's tights puce, his cape true blue...