Word: stopper
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...Show Stopper. Manhattan Boutique Owner Jimmi York credits the craze to anti-midi, proleg passion. "The way women are buying and men are reacting," she explains, "it would seem legs have been out of sight for ten years, not ten months." Furrier Jacques Kaplan favors mink and broadtail shorts, priced up to $200, which are perfectly at home in his zebra-walled living room (see color picture). Says Kaplan: "They are the quickest way to fight the long length." Buyers couldn't agree more. In Paris, minishorts are an everynight, run-of-the-disco affair. They are particularly suited...
Much of this kind of joy derives from the work of choreographer Ron Porter, who sends his dancers through whirlwinds of frenetic steps, jump and whoops. His "Heart" number is a show stopper, as the baseball players scamper all over the place under the robust leadership of Bob Bush, the salty team manager...
...former baseball coach, Norm Shepard, labeled Peters' professional status "a tremendous blow to Harvard baseball." When pressed further, Shepard elaborated: "A pitcher like Ray comes along just once in a while. He was one that could throw the ball by the hitter. You don't get a real stopper like Ray every...
...Astaire and Clark are saddled with threadbare brogues, and both talk as if they were dictating letters to a tape recorder. Tommy Steele's hyperthyroid performance mistakes popped eyeballs for emotion and shrieks for singing. Coppola's idea of a scene-stopper is a bunch of flowers. Whenever the action halts, he brings on fields of roses, daffodils and chrysanthemums. Ennui is so frequent that by the end, Finian's Rainbow boasts more bouquets than a Mafia funeral...
Manhattan ladies have been all atwitter about the Yves St. Laurent peekaboo dress that was such a stopper in the Paris fall fashion shows. Last week they saw it in the flesh at Alexander's couture-copy show. Out came the model, preening prettily in a floor-length drift of sheer black chiffon, with only a ruff of ostrich feathers around the hip to save it from moving out of the controversial category into the condemned. For customers who want the concoction, Alexander's was ready to supply a cop-out-a body stocking that would make...