Word: sketches
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Sander is not one of those designers whose participation in the process of making clothes ends when they have made a sketch. A former student of textile engineering, she insists on controlling all the details of manufacturing, and has invented fabrics like wool velvet and wool linen. She tries on every item in her collection before it is sent to stores and has been known to delay or refuse shipments of pieces that are not perfectly executed to her specifications. To keep her production schedules on target and to make sure - there isn't anything lacking in her line, Sander...
...Importance of Being Oscar attempts to convey this variety of sentiment in the context of Oscar Wilde's life, with mixed results. Written by Micheal Mac Liammoir, the play presents a biographical sketch of the author interspersed with excerpts from Wilde's writing. The excerpts, taken from poetry, prose, and personal letters, are well chosen and demonstrate Wilde's insightful commentary on 19th-century European society. They also suggest the depth and vulnerability of Wilde's nature, his sensitivity to the events and people in his life...
...writer Michael J. Nelson), and two robots, Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow (Trace Beaulieu) -- sit in front of a movie screen and, as First Spaceship to Venus or Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster or I Accuse My Parents unspools, they crack wise. That's about it, plus a sketch or two and some edgy banter with the mad scientists, Dr. Clayton Forrester (Beaulieu again) and TV's Frank (Frank Conniff), who supposedly have stranded Mike and the 'bots on the Satellite of Love deep in space and who send these cheesy movies as experiments to monitor Mike's mind...
...Alegria is the most circusy, the most intimate, traditional, European. Though it boasts wondrous sets and costumes -- an aviary motif with acrobat birds in brilliant plumage -- it is dominated by the clowns, most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying his solitude until another arrives; it is a French existential drama in miniature, a No Exit or Godot with a sweeter aftertaste...
...length, which accentuates not so much the stocking as the ample amount of thigh above it, did not spring spontaneously from Lauren's sketch pad. Its 19th century antecedent is the gartered stocking. In those times, for reasons that probably escape today's young generations, that fashion was considered disturbingly sexy (but then, so was the bustle). Nowadays, what % women seem to want is unhampered, ungartered, unmitigated eroticism a la Lolita. Underwear is already worn on the outside -- stuff that looks as if it comes from the lingerie department (and often does), and thigh-highs only complement the picture...