Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants and a chauffeur-driven limousine, and likes to screen her old movies for guests in the Mao villa. But there she was on stage, drawing noisy applause as she inveighed against such capitalist poisons as "rock 'n' roll, jazz, striptease, impressionism, symbolism, abstractionism, Fauvism and modernism...
...Roll collar granny prints epaulets mitotic paisley double-breasted checks shiny hankie serpent tie four buttons bouffant Tom Jones sleeves French cuffs wide leather belt suede spade polka dot high rise plaid low rise dress non-dress stovepipe pinstripe bell-bottom subtle trumpet blaring--these clothes are moving, the whole store is moving. The music pounding out from the radio baby baby baby while these clothes whirl you around and around...
...closets happening now. About ten pairs of bell bottoms, and then eight suits. You know, double-breasted, four buttons--some with epaulets, some with bell bottoms. Both three piece and regular. About thirty shirts, I guess--like, with roll collars or ferociously high collars. Three or four pair of shoes, four or five pair of boots. And, like, I don't think I can count the ties...
...sound effects, chiefly rock and roll and assorted grunts, are handled clumsily. The lighting is barbarously simple, which can be expected in a House production, but it lets be seen what good there is to see: Ionesco scintillating, Odell acting and the whole set growing...
Most men tucked their masks in their pockets as soon as they arrived. Explained Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: "It itches, and I can't see." Soon the women followed suit, long before the magical hour of midnight. While the bands alternated rock 'n' roll and pop tunes, the favorite sport became people watching, until the question arose, what next? With no climax in sight and no single star to shine, part of the answer was 450 bottles of nonvintage Taittinger champagne. Paris Review Editor George Plimpton began throwing slow-motion forward passes with a napkin to Receiver John...