Word: satined
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...with the bracing stimulation of hot rum punch. You know also what their dinner was like, the chicken cacciatore, the wine, the one candle filling their flushed faces with flickering figments of fantasy. You know what the play was like, the hurrying into seats, the white furs and black satin lapels, the amiable crowd in the lobby at intermission. But then you don't know what transpired in the car as they parked on a hill overlooking Boston, and I wont' tell you. The tender togetherness of young lovers can be shared with...
...like a flock of gaudy parakeets uncaged into a grey wilderness. Earl Bruce Jackson (who plays Sportin' Life in the opera) had holes cut in his gloves so that all could see his rings, and he waved regally. He also kept brooding about the brown tails, with champagne satin lapels, that he hoped to wear for his planned Moscow wedding (to a cast member) and thus get into Leonard Lyons' column...
...came to a head a year ago. Fox wanted to type Marilyn once again as an emptyheaded, wriggle-hipped blonde in How to Be Very, Very Popular. Complaining that she was being miscast, and could fill a dramatic role as well as a satin sheath, Marilyn walked out. Fox promptly took her off the payroll...
...taxes; Madame Paula's satin-draped opium parlor, where a pipe cost 75 piasters (against 5 at lower-class establishments), and the customers ranged in rank up to diplomats and generals...
...Finally, four years ago, she persuaded a New Orleans disk jockey called Poppa Stoppa to put her on his program. Soon after that, she had singing jobs again, swept along by the huge current jazz boom. "I dug up my old antique gowns - crepe and satin -and my long beads and fancy combs and shoes with rhinestones on the heels." The Music Was Different. Today, billed as vocalist with the Scobey combo, Lizzie is playing some of the country's better-known jazz spots (including, last month, Chicago's Blue Note). Everywhere, she becomes the favorite as soon...