Word: robed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adored. Warm and natural with everyone, she never claims her star prerogatives except for the sake of somebody else. Last week, when a workman got drunk, she summoned her limousine to take him safely home. At the noon break, on occasion, she bunches her floor-length royal robe between her thighs, hops on a studio bicycle, goes pedaling off to the fridge for the bottle of rosé that she stashed there in the morning?and then shares it with her hairdresser or the company's dog trainer...
...bronze-anodized aluminum, will form the central element in the $160 million Maine-Montparnasse redevelopment project being built on the site of the gutted Gare Montparnasse. It will import from New York City the shape, roughly, of the Pan Am Building, the color and texture of Mies van der Robe's Seagram tower. The skyscraper complex will include a five-story, 250-room hotel, a department store, restaurants, galleries, shops, a skating rink, a movie theater and a 1,500-car underground parking lot. Near by will be two office-apartment buildings (one 20, the other 19 stories tall...
From Camp Stanley, the President helicoptered to an agricultural demonstration area south of Seoul. He viewed the painstakingly cultivated land, tried on a flowing blue-and-white Korean farmer's robe and stovepipe hat, then invited Village Elder Si Jong Choe, 65, for a helicopter ride. After 10 minutes aloft, Choe exclaimed: "It's like going to heaven...
...technical sides of the production mirror the best and worst features of the acting. The incidental music syncopates Bach flute sonatas with jazz instrumentation a la Swingle Singers. Mixed with Roberts' brightly patterned sets and costumes (Charles Keating plays Valentine's feigned mad scene in a giant purple paisley robe and a huge hat like the top of a party favor), the music induces a pleasurable sense of swingingly elegant decadence...
...Lancaster's swimathon. The homeowners went along for fees of about $500 a day and assurance that the film crews would use mobile toilet facilities and not go traipsing into people's houses. A single exception was the star, who one evening appeared in a terry-cloth robe at one back door and asked: "Are you the lady of the house? I'm Burt Lancaster. May I have a vodka martini...