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...character. Still, when Bartell lets go, as she does at the height of her confrontations with Henry, she is stunning. Her range grandly encompasses comic high-spiritedness and tragic disillusionment, and when she tells Henry she still adores him, every word wrenched out of her as though by a rack, her body, face and voice all conspire to compel absolute belief. In the end, it is a supremely memorable performance...
Amidst all this science, the conservators still become enthusiastic over the artistic results of their chemical technology and NASA-like machinery. One might become calloused into viewing the paintings as mere flat surfaces in need of care before they are carried off to line walls or hang from rack after rack in a storage room with only inches to spare between them. But a woman restoring a Bouchet portrait of a court lady instead remarks: "These pieces were added to the rectangular original to turn it into an oval...rather lovely...
...with a mere wink of the eye or shrug of the shoulder. His face is a rubbery Halloween mask that can be anyone from Captain Hook in Peter Pan -another product of their collaborations-to a sailor in On the Town. She is the perfect counterpoise, an off-the-rack Garbo who would have turned even Camille into a wild giggle. Rarely has so much wit and fun been packed into two hours. To cop a line from another songwriter. Cole Porter, what a swellegant, elegant party this...
...main business is supplying medium-priced ($100-$300), ready made dresses to department stores and dress shops. Mrs. Carter is his first custom client. Among Rompollo's dress-shop outlets is Jason's in Americus, Ga.. where Rosalynn sometimes goes to buy her clothes off the rack. "Mrs. Carter is totally unimpressed by famous-name labels." says Jason's President Jack Moses. "If she likes an inexpensive item, she'll take the inexpensive item...
...Shee-Rack! Climaxing a day-long orgy of pride and peroration, Chirac stood atop an immense podium, his arms outstretched in the large V popularized by De Gaulle. "Let us restore hope to our country!" he shouted to the throng. Like tiny flashes of lightning, the reflections of strobe lights glittered on his large glasses while his followers cried over and over, "Shee-rack! Shee-rack...