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...word, Sophie was reassuring: she was telling the world that the New Look could be acquired with comparatively little pain to either torsos or pocketbooks. "After all," said she, "our girls have beautiful figures. Do you think they'll want to spoil them with padded hips? Even if they do like this tight waistline, how many are willing to go through the agony to get it? I put on one of those new corsets and after 15 minutes I had to take it off. I've never been so uncomfortable in my life...
...years we have aimed at being natural, and the result has been more attractive styles and better health. Why spoil it with grotesque changes? ... In our generation has anyone really liked hips...
...Woodrow Wilson's closest friends, Professor Harper sometimes disagreed and sometimes fought with him, but always made up ("Don't let this little spat spoil our friendship," Wilson would say). During all the bitter months when Wilson split faculty and alumni by insisting that the new graduate school be made part of the college itself, Harper stood by him. Appropriately, Harper was the first to occupy the Woodrow Wilson chair of literature...
...cerie touch in the last act that has to be seen. On both these counts the very thought of the Metropolitan doing the opera is foolish, for the necessity of using old costumes and old settings and that unique operatic brand of acting on the huge Met stage would spoil Menotti's work...
...Kenny Baker sings while he flips ("love walked right in . . . and drove the shadows away") in a romantic golden voice custom-built for Mr. Plain Citizen. Sugar daddy Menjou gets the word and the bird. If this plot wearies it nevertheless does not get in the way sufficiently to spoil the central production and comedy numbers which it strings together...