Word: robed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clock Friday morning I'm on the porch in the landlord's burgundy robe, smiling at a tall woman who has clear blue eyes and slightly curly light brown hair--She looks like an athlete. She might be thirty-five. Her fingernails are glistening and perfect in the morning light "I'm a friend of Elliot's Tina Graham--he didn't mention...
...Sorry to bust in on you like this," she says, closing the folder and stepping past me into the dark foyer. "Elliot was supposed to tell you about me. "She smiles as if we've settled something. "Maybe if we have some coffee I can explain--that a pretty robe you've got." She picks up the day-old newspaper...
...whole thing, said one involved lawyer, was "a bizarre situation that reads like a bad script for a television soap opera." To be called, possibly, Scandal in the Courtroom, or maybe just The Judges. For the principal players in a black-robe drama currently unfolding in Cleveland are two federal judges. One has been accused of helping relatives and friends to get lucrative fees and jobs. The other has been accused of making some of the charges-baselessly-in order to get revenge on a lawyer-lover who jilted...
...succession of images: "It was that sort of a hot still day when one seems particularly to hear the buzzing of flies." A picture from doomed Antioch: "As the sun ascends the morning shadow of the eastern slopes of Silpius withdraws from the city like a transparent purple robe trailed across a floor." Because he still lives as a glitch in the cosmos, Pilgermann can play telescopic tricks with space and time. He remembers the rituals of Passover, the precautionary striking of the side posts and lintels of Jewish dwellings, and makes a leap: "The spattering drops of blood...
...entrances are well-timed, although slowed by the audience's initial reactions to Burton (who looks graceful and distinguished in a tuxedo, though his shoe-heels are about three inches too high for the 1930s of Private Lives) and Taylor, who enters confidently in a low-cut nightgown and robe. But, in keeping with the tone of the evening. Taylor soon changes into a Theoni Aldredge purple sequined gown that, were the actors not a hundred feet away, would undoubtedly become her violet eyes...