Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subtler was Gail Casson's disquieting solo, "Marooned." A crumpled piece of cloth served in turn as the dancer's nursed and dandled baby, as an alien object enkindling fear, as the skirt in which she danced with measured delicacy or frenzied abandon, and finally as a pair of wings launching her into solipsistic flight. Through an accumulation of flawlessly-timed, needle-sharp details, Casson awakened issues of astonishing complexity: identity and mask, fantasy and madness, reality and imagination, or--as when she held the bunched skirt to her breast, moving her own mouth in the fishlike gulps...
...school, where her yearbook inscription read: "What is the one thing Sally would want on a desert island? A husband." Gradually, awakened by her experience in the veteran's hospital and by the feminist roommate she moves in with, a new consciousness emerges. She sheds her prudish dresses and skirt outfits for jeans and imported shirts, becomes increasingly anti-war, and eventually falls in love with Voight. After this happens, their ideal love affair becomes the central focus of the movie. But the point is that the way you love is the way you live...
What Tiegs does now is a fast, intricate dance. She turns quickly, swirling the skirt of her red dress. She is very good. At the height of the swirl, and an instant before Seltzer's strobe lights flash, she smiles in a way that seems marvelously natural, although the smile's wattage is far greater than anything likely to be encountered in the real world. For perhaps 20 minutes, the pattern of turn, swirl, smile is repeated without letup, but with subtle variations. In these 20 minutes, Seltzer fires off four or five rolls of 36-exposure Kodachrome, perhaps...
...outdoors nut like myself," says Kelly, and in those days a suntan did not help. A California girl was tagged, she says. "You'd go to New York, and Eileen Ford would look you up and down and say, 'My God, get rid of that blonde hair, make your skirt longer, and tone down...
...sent to fetch her new father-in-law, Loren Hardeman (Laurence Olivier), who is late in coming down. Softly calling his name, she opens the door to his room and freezes. So does the audience. Propped up against the side of the bed is a petite French maid, her skirt over her head and her legs wrapped around the greatest actor in the world--the first director of Great Britain's National Theater, member of the British Parliament, now 70 years old--who is grunting and whacking away at her. "The Harold Robbins people," the ads for The Betsy tempt...