Word: satinized
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...ballrooms and garages. Corman, a set-happy director, lets the furniture generate most of the suspense in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. You're on the edge of your seat, in anguish: Will the next chairs zipping into the picture be dressed in chintz or campy antique satin...
...living room complement a Chippendale sofa covered in needlepoint, an English secretary and an English gaming table. Mary Cassatt's pastel of Electra's mother hangs in her bedroom. Desk and dresser tops are crowded with silver-framed photographs of her children and grandchildren-and a white satin pillow on the bed bears the red-embroidered maxim: "We live in deeds, not years...
...front, just like overextended football jerseys. Rudi Gernreich is pushing a combination of what he calls the "Renaissance page quality" and the astronaut look, mixing his capes with Layne Nielsen's visored helmets, or putting together a long corduroy coachman's coat with vest, pants and satin ascot shirt ("It's a combination of George Sand and Cher...
...native dress and the joyous swirl of their steps. And, as Degas mastered the art of portraying dancers, he eventually developed a prickly affection for them. "There's something artificial even about my heart," he confessed. "The dancers have sewn it up in a bag made of pink satin, rather faded pink satin, like their ballet shoes...
Scandalized, the London Daily Mirror was spluttering: "Tight satin corselettes, bunny scuts and furry ears, bulging breasts and thighs-the ultimate in American vulgarity." Summing up, the Mirror snipped: "Princesses and bunnies don't mix." Well, they really didn't have to mix much at the Dockland Settlements Society's charity ball in London's Savoy Hotel. The ball's organizers thought it would be cute to have some Playboy Club bunnies hopping around selling programs, and that's what the gals were doing when Britain's Princess Margaret, 36, swept in with...