Word: styles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustling little Director Laszlo Halasz, the late Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier looked like a natural for his New York City Opera Co. Its conversational style, he thought, was ideally suited to his City Center opera house...
...Friday, when the Series moved to Ebbets Field, the fans were ready for Brooklyn's usual wide-open, slambang style of play. Instead, for eight innings, the game jogged right along in the pattern : a pitching exhibition between Brooklyn's usually erratic Ralph Branca, who settled down to retire 14 batters in a row and New York's ace-in-the-sleeve Relief Pitcher Joe Page, who replaced Tommy Byrne in the fourth inning...
...tourist uniform looked something like this: He had a crew cut, khaki pants, and a seersucker coat with the green edge of a U. S. passport showing above the edge of his inside breast pocket. There was always a camera in a leather case slung Sam Brown belt style over one shoulder, and in his right hand he carried a guide book, open. Vendors of beads, lace, and leather goods, and certain attractive young business women could spot him a mile...
...pretty "Toodie" Simpson, the bachelor met his match. Ever since her schooldays (at Virginia's fashionable, horsy Foxcroft), according to one of her friends, Toodie "had only one concern-to get married." She wore huge gold earrings in a gypsy style and had frizzy black hair. The effect, said her friend, was rather too exotic for an 18-year-old and somehow she "scared the boys away." Nevertheless, in 1946 Toodie married William Simpson, the son of a Chicago millionaire. Last year they were divorced. Now a sleek, mature 26 who "can afford a suit or two from Schiaparelli...
Director Jules (Naked City) Dassin is a realist with a varnished style that switches from arty to operatic to documentary. His highway scenes give a sense of speeding movement and the ominous effect on the driver of cars hurtling past in a metallic rhythm. Occasionally he turns in a totally authentic shot, e.g., an oatmeal-grey Sunday morning in the produce market, the street forlorn and empty except for some work-worn truckers sitting on crates eating watermelon...