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...strong, untrained and thrilling soprano. She wears no makeup and her long black hair hangs like a drapery, parted around her long almond face. In performance she comes on, walks straight to the microphone, and begins to sing. No patter. No show business. She usually wears a sweater and skirt or a simple dress. Occasionally she affects something semi-Oriental that seems to have been hand-sewn out of burlap. The purity of her voice suggests purity of approach. She is only 21 and palpably nubile. But there is little sex in that clear flow of sound. It is haunted...
...almost always deserted. A bird might light on a telephone wire or a tree shudder briefly by the wayside, but all else is still. The camera pans in on a woman (Jeanne Moreau? Monica Vitti? Anouk Aimee? Emmanuelle Riva?). She is doing The Walk. Her hands flutter at her skirt, her hips tip from side to side, slowly, sensually. She walks past the tree, or telephone pole, or both, or a thousand of each. Occasionally, she stops, touches a fence post, a tree trunk, a street lamp, a spiny plant-should they all be construed as phallic symbols...
...issues. Teddy Kennedy is following the Administration line; Lodge attempts to draw distinctions and offer constructive alternatives. So far he has been unable to find a vital, vote-winning area of disagreement. On medical care for the aged Lodge opposes the compulsory social security approach, but he manages to skirt the basic liberal-conservative clash and to emerge supporting a bigger and better plan "of the individual's choice" with extended coverage to "three million needs people not under social security" and with extended benefits of nursing care. Lodge calls himself "an extremist" on civil rights and demands the promised...
ADELE BRAGAR (on Mass. Ave above Radcliffe) is showing three no 'Cliffle can live without: the wrap around skirt, the cardigan sweater, and the turtleneck top. The skirt comes in cranberry red, loden green, and brown. Fashioned in rich narrow corduroy, it sports conveniently pockets and is priced at a sensible...
...National Theater. There nearly a thousand spectators jostled fashion reporters for glimpses of the nation's best beaded, brocaded and beminked women. They gasped their approval when Jacqueline Kennedy stepped out of a limousine encased in the stunning pinks, golds and greens of a full-length Chinese brocade skirt, green velvet top and oriental stole...