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...velvet for evening, Faraoni makes sleeves of them for narrow dresses. Romantic, richly worked evening gowns slink to floor length, Gattinoni's narrow satin gowns come with heavily beaded apron fronts, and Top Designer Micol Fontana offers a blue velvet ball gown with gold embroidery spilling over the skirt. Fontana, whose colors include something called "adoration red," says of the new line: "It's a reaction against all this talk of war and bombs. In evening a woman should be allowed to wear something sweet and romantic. We need more sentimentality in life...
...small tapestry factory. But once again, sales were few. One day when he was nearly 40, he carved a small nude, Bather. At first Banyuls' prudery precluded his asking anyone to pose ("The best I succeeded in doing was to persuade my sister-in-law to raise her skirt a little above the knee"), but the small sculpture pleased him. He decided to stick to sculpture from then on. In 1900 he turned out his delicate Leda, which was included in his first Paris show two years later. "In all modern sculpture," said Rodin of Leda...
...making the score 7-0. The Jumbo defensemen had been playing hard, and, amid the cries of the coach to "put two men on the man with the ball. . . . doubleteam that ball-handler," they tried to exert more pressure on the Crimson attack only to watch midfielder Pete Sieglaff skirt past them and dump the ball into the nets...
...turn in fine performances that are vital to the success of Sternberg's visual subtleties. Dietrich makes the plot plausible by injecting enough warmth into her role to justify Rath's falling in love with her. She manages to remain sympathetic until the last sequence and, even in a skirt scalloped up to the waist in front, she maintains dignity. Her singing alone is worth the price of admission. See this film before it's retired...
When one couple arrived--the boy attired in blue jeans and turtleneck sweater, the girl in black tights, skirt, and sweater--they were besieged by newsmen desperately looking for a story...