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...safety crusade has prompted some would-be buyers to consider how they might fare in a rollover accident-even though there is no statistical evidence that convertibles are less safe. In an era of growing crime, the convertible is an easy target; knife-wielding thieves can readily slash through the top to loot or steal a parked car. Besides all that, observes Chuck Norwood, a member of Lincoln-Mercury's product-planning staff, "the convertible was part of a life-style that has changed. Men used to take their girls out on moonlit nights to country lanes" where they...
...Oscar Wilde's The Ideal Husband, Helen Hayes in an engaging self-portrait, and Kim Stanley on a bill of one-acters by Tennessee Williams. Last week Playhouse launched a six-part retrospective of life and film in the 1930s. One aim of the series is to slash through the current sentimentalization of the Great Depression era. "Young people romanticize the '30s," says Arthur Miller. "In actuality, it was a terrible time." The opener was Miller's play A Memory of Two Mondays. It is a plotless, proletarian slice-of-life drama, but Jacqueline Babbin...
...shell-shocked major.) The town, in secret convention which we are mercifully spared, puts the finger on Rosy Ryan, whose every aspiration apes the upper classes, and who moreover has been sleeping with the enemy. So they go to her home, strip her naked, cut off her hair, and slash her face (though not permanently, since she is played by Robert Bolt's wife). The film's next-to-last sequence has Rosy, husband Mitchum, and priest walk down a deserted street to the hisses and jeers of the safely invisible inhabitants of Kilgarry. This is the deliberate climax...
Doing the most standing in these days are jeans-a term that has come to mean any pants that are close-fitting, slash-pocketed and welt-seamed. Not the ordinary old-style, head-'em-off-at-the-gulch variety, but jeans in every color from apricot to zinc and fabrics that range from plain corduroys, velours and gabardines to showier crushed velvets, suedes, leathers and even fur. Boston's Jordan Marsh Co. reports jeans sales at "a crescendo"; Chicago's Saks Fifth Avenue puts the boom at "wildfire proportions, even among older women." Five years ago, there...
Although the injury, a slash in the face that required 15 stitches, does not physically impair Cavanagh's play, the Harvard All-American reported last night that the pain was increasing and bothering him considerably...