Word: skirtings
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...quite a tiring business "reading" a full-scale Pre-Raphaelite allegory, like Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd, 1851-52. This sunny, pastoral scene of two rustics flirting was actually a warning against the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England. The girl in the red skirt refers to the scarlet woman of Rome; the lamb in her lap is about to sicken from the green apple of false knowledge it has bitten; the sheep, wandering unattended into the corn, are the strayed flock of the Anglican clergy...
...same frenetic style serves her much better as a dancer. Her timing and placement are precise, and she uses her body with humor (sitting on the floor and wiggling backward out of a cancan skirt), sexual invitation (in the bumps and grinds of a vulgar parody of some black choreography), and grace (in the irregular, Twyla Tharpish movements created for her by Director-Choreographer Alan Johnston). She highlights the dances' meaning with a panoply of facial expressions: she may be the best mugger since Lucille Ball...
Still, as Antoinette has recounted to Co-Author Thomas Renner, growing up as a Mafia princess was scarcely an elevating experience. Her first taste of the savagery that pervaded Giancana's world came when she knocked over his pet objet, a kitschy female figurine clutching her wind-blown skirt. Giancana's response was to beat his young daughter with his belt...
...Policewoman Enrica Pirri, who had abandoned a job at a fashion house to do public relations for the Corps, developed the idea for a competition. Why not have Pirri's former colleagues design a replacement for the women's version of men's outfits-navy blue skirt instead of trousers and regulation jacket with a couple of bust darts added to accommodate anatomy? Five renowned Italian designers would be invited to submit prototypes. The prize would be prestige and publicity for the designer of the winning uniforms...
Catastrophe. Not the designs-there was a general consensus that they were excellent. Laura Biagiotti came up with not only a trim pants-skirt and navy blouson but also a knit pullover colored wine red and gold, the official city colors. The policewomen were enthusiastic, the press enchanted. Gucci created a leather blouson and helmet that looked as if it belonged on a Flash Gordon storm trooper. The Fendi sisters, working as usual with Karl Lagerfeld, went far afield from their luxury furs and submitted a striking winter woolen overcoat with a storm cape that the Brontë sisters might...