Word: robed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designer-created lines will not hit the national market until next year. At Bonwit Teller, however, the flashy, far-out ideas of Giorgio di Sant'Angelo are on display now. His basic looks include a dolman-sleeved, high-waisted body suit, with a loose, short-sleeved long robe that goes over it. "I think this will replace the poncho," he says. "In winter, the Chinese sometimes wear six of these robes-the layered look is really very Chinese...
...Dear Robe...
...Broadway production were done solely for the entertainment of fag New Yorkers and the conceit and pocketbook of Tom O'Horgan. Whether they intended to do so, Rice and Webber have composed a work that speaks to modern Christians. Despite the silver shorts and $20,000 robe...
Sometimes O'Horgan, like Cecil B. DeMille, overwhelms through extravagance. The most dramatic example (see cover) is Jesus rising from the stage floor on a hidden elevator; a $20,000 robe cascades in gleaming folds beneath him, after covering layers have been stripped off, suggesting the radiant emergence of a butterfly from a chrysalis. O'Horgan's aim is mainly to shock the sensibilities; often, alas, that is all he manages...
...Free Robe. The temporary judge is appointed for a single civil case, and his powers are strictly limited. He cannot perform marriages, for instance, or sign search warrants for criminal investigations. And since each is a volunteer, he gets no pay. Otherwise, says Presiding Judge McCarty, "we treat him like any other justice. We provide him with a robe and off he goes...