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...bride, the lascivious king has chosen Anne's sexy (if dim-witted) sister, the new Queen Morgana Prettiface (Adam Feldman). "What Ho!" declares the valiant Princess Diana, who sports a leather Hamlet-style mini-skirt. "Oh, that ho," she says when she sees Prettiface...
...preponderance of alumni at our games. They just don't make for the same excitement. The corporate lawyer banging on the glass screaming "You SUCK!" is an image no one, especially the corporate lawyer, could ever imagine. The Radcliffe grad in a plaid ankle length skirt asking friends and strangers for the best private preschool would never belch. "Fat this, Terriers!" from the balcony...
...staffers are looking at semi-finished garments on the house models. Everybody speaks up -- about the width of a belt, the choice of footwear ("I hate those shoes!"). Staring into the mirrors with the intensity of a dancer in a practice studio, the designer ponders. A filmy navy chiffon skirt gets an instant reaction: "Georgette." It seems that the diaphanous chiffon is too light; the slightly heavier georgette will hang better. So an order is placed with the fabric house in Italy. It will take 24 hours for delivery -- if the fabric house has an acceptable navy...
...Renta's gowns show the most exquisite materials and embroidery but are presented, as it were, in translation -- to a modern idiom. The last-minute bolts of georgette appear in a series of elegant sheaths, delicately layered, that have the cool beauty of a waterfall. One knockout skirt is of raffia -- the straw-hat material -- that looks amazingly like embroidery...
...years after her death, following each snowfall, her figure was seen walking through the snow near the Chapel. The skirt of her mourning gown trailed through the snow; but there were never any footprints...