Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight to $3,750. The revelers arrive in psychedelic splendor, shed most of their clothes during the night, and emerge in the early morning, after hours of dancing, in bikinis, swimming trunks and sarongs...
Wednesday, January 22 VOYAGE TO THE ENCHANTED ISLES (CBS 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* This essay, which is partially narrated by Prince Philip, examines the strange Galapagos Islands, where the climate permits penguins and flamingoes to coexist in undisturbed splendor along with other primitive forms of wildlife...
...play skillfully brackets Rolfe as Pope with two scenes in which Rolfe is shown in ignominious penury - freezing and starving in his London room, bullied by his landlady, harassed by bailiffs, spitting vitriol at the obdurate world. Rolfe's real life was a dramatic contrast to the Vatican splendor of his Cinderella dream, and McCowen makes the most of it. Head cocked and shoulders hunched into a grubby purple scarf, he alternately whines with self-pity and whirls arrogantly on his persecutors, slashingly vituperative...
...Great Splendor. At home, she dresses informally in the kho, the traditional Sikkimese costume, which is an ankle-length jumper that wraps around the waist and is worn over a blouse of contrasting color-cotton or wool for the daytime and silk in the evening. She uses cosmetics only occasionally and does her own hair-though she admits that she is encouraging a romance between a Sikkimese youth and a Calcutta hairdresser in the hope of importing the kingdom's first coiffeuse. She describes her home as "a poorish palace but a palace." It is a 64-year...
...chance in a million, but it just might work." Everything else is there too-the whiplash body English and frenetic tap routines, the hard-times songs about riches-to-rags and good-times-acomin', the Spanish-town song ("Do you remember those nights of splendor"), the train song ("Clickity-clackity-woo-woo") and the rain song ("Pitter-patter-what's-the-matter...