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The program's immense visual appeal lies in costumes that can hardly be matched anywhere else. By and large, they are replicas of what was worn by emperors and ordinary folk during the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Silk is the predominant fabric; even beggars wear it, but with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chinese Opera: Gongs & Whiteface | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

As always, hemline lengths "don't really matter" any more to the likes of Yves St. Laurent; as always, buyers and fashion writers looked first to the calf. The results were generally high-level (just below the knee), though midi-scarred U.S. buyers noted nervously that St. Laurent, Marc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Rags for the Richest | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

Claudio is an ordinary, weak man-in-the-street, caught with his pants down: he is just about the only believable person in the play. Shakespeare was remiss in giving him only a couple of lines in the second half of the work, and, when he finally turns up alive...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Philip Kerr Excels in 'Measure for Measure' | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

Seoul offers 1,500 registered kisaeng, most of them young and pretty. The girls are licensed, as an official directive specifies, to "entertain her guest in his hotel room." Among licensing requirements: a rigid twice-a-month phys ical checkup. (Kisaeng pick up their cards, oddly enough, in Seoul'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: The Seoul of Hospitality | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

IT was one of the better-dressed sets of hosts Lowell Lec had seen in a while. The ushers, each wearing a button of their mentor, were dressed in coats and ties, blouses and skirts. It might have been a gathering of young Republicans, except that the buttons bore pictures...

Author: By Charles M Kahn, | Title: Rennie Davis and the Guru | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

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