Word: shawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says Mrs. Carter prefers "a beautiful, covered look, not too much fuss or too many frills." With that in mind, he has also created her swearing-in togs: an understated wool dress with a fitted waist and slightly flared skirt, a classic wool coat and a fringed wool shawl. All are in a rich blue-green Rompollo calls "Rosalynn green...
...attractions of the exhibit, organized by Diana Vreeland, were the eloquently unfettered wardrobes of two great dancers. Isadora Duncan, a free-spirited sensation of La Belle Epoque, considered herself built along the lines of the Venus de Milo and often performed her astounding dances wearing nothing but a chiffon shawl. In an adjoining room, the eye-popping costumes of St. Louis-born Folies-Bergère Dancer Josephine Baker provided a contrast to Isadora's severity. One of them was a sequined fishnet leotard, another a skirt of white satin bananas. "I wasn't really naked," Josephine used...
...varying degrees of success. The distinctive feature of the topic in this film is that, unlike Robert Cohn or Alexander Portnoy, the principal character never undergoes a genuine identity crisis. Jake never really denies his Jewishness; upon learning of his father's death, he dons the ceremonial Jewish mourning shawl, and even his girlfriend, Mamie Fein, is Jewish. Jake's Jewishness never comes into question because he never departs from the Jewish community. Rather than rejecting his Jewishness, Jake is simply embracing as much of America as he can. "I'm an American, a Yankee, that...
...Snitkina, stenographer, stands across the street from a dingy building in the artisans' district of St. Petersburg, and thinks: This is the apartment house where Raskolnikov must have lived. Timidly she climbs the stairs and knocks on the door of the second floor apartment. A servant with a green shawl draped around her shoulders lets Anna in, and the stenographer thinks: this must be the shawl worn by Mrs. Marmeladov. Anna follows the servant down a dark hallway, into a dimly lit study and thinks: This is the desk where the great man must have written Crime and Punishment...
...teenage boy who was apparently after the 40¢ that the child had in his pocket. In New York City this spring, police charged a gang of six teen-agers?one of whom was 13?with murdering three elderly and penniless men by asphyxiation. One man died with his prayer shawl stuffed into his mouth...