Word: rags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Predictably, the songs which spoof timeless issues have survived well. The revue includes some of his best, like "Vatican Rag," "New Math," "Pigeons in the Park," "Masochism Tango," and, of course. "Fight Fiercely, Harvard." But at least a quarter of the two-hour long show included songs which focus on either nuclear destruction, global pollution, or the folk songs popular 15 years ago. And while "Werner Von Braun," "Who's Next," and "The Folk Song Army" elicits chuckles, the overriding feeling is one of nostalgia, not of aroused social awareness...
...calls "body sculpture." Now she has left her duties as hostess of a Playboy Network talk show to develop a fashion-modeling career. The 5-ft. 3½-in., 105-lb. unscrawny mannequin currently appears on six pages of the German edition of Vogue; her physique may soon grace rag-trade magazines in Italy and Japan. Lyon will appear before the fashion crowd in person next month, she says, when she models the Liza Bruce ready-to-wear collection in London. Adds she: "I see myself as a representative of a new life, a fusion of mind and body." Press...
...playground. The actors swing on ropes, on tree-limbs, on tires, they wear buckets, newspapers or cans as hats, hub caps as shields, they make wooden boards, wired sheets, plastic boards into musical instruments, and much more. While their ingenuity with props would impress any junkman, coupled with the rag-tag costumes they actually complement the patchwork nature of the entire show...
Hollywood's Harvard, to the professional eye of costume designer Josephine Ynocencio, is "an east coast preppie college--button down shirts, you know, and rag sweaters." For the wardrobe, "I shopped at Bloomingdales, to tell you the truth, and Brooks Brothers," she said...
...signers of the Declaration of Independence was genuine. A hurricane had caused the paper to be submerged in water for five days. When he retrieved it, the owner found to his relief that all the signatures remained clear and bright. They had been written with iron-gall ink on rag paper...