Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courtroom in San Remo, the slim, stiff-spined figure of Brigadier General Alberto Concaro, 74, stands at attention before the bar. It is a simple parking problem. But as the judge announces that General Concaro must park his car in his garage and stop using it as a storeroom, Concaro cries: "I protest!" The argument grows in volume; the general draws an automatic pistol. One court official drops, shot twice in the stomach and once in the leg. The court usher charges boldly, then sprawls dead with three methodically aimed bullets in him. The judge intervenes, only to slump...
...chances of a win tonight are slim, to say nothing of the hopes of six straight. With its 13-6 record, Cornell is one of the top teams in the East, and the Big Red has already edged the Crimson 3-2 in Cambridge...
Salome was 16 and slinky-slim. Birgit Nilsson is 46 and boatswain-burly. As for casting the Swede in the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome, the idea seemed roughly comparable to starring Judith Anderson as Lolita. But New York's Metropolitan Opera does, on occasion, have imagination, and for its long-awaited restaging of Salome, the Met put its money on Birgit...
Other designers' offerings ran true to form: Grės' intricate chiffons, Castillo's long slim crepes, Capucci's stiff white collars. Pierre Cardin still reigned as Lord High Poohbah of Limp, displayed a group of floppy fashions and judged the season's loveliest. But with the Big Three-St. Laurent, Balenciaga and Givenchy-still three weeks away from showtime, the season was less past than prelude. The shape of things to come may still be drastically altered-but so, of course, can dresses already ordered...
...music. When Miss Kate dies, Henry flies into a necro-filial rage and attacks the poor soul in her very grave. That sort of thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim (Don Murray) drives them out of town toward The Valley. Of course, evrabody knows where The Valley is. Lies somewhere between lofty Faulkner country and the Foote hills...