Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Terror is a sly and stylish send-up of costume chillers as well as of that silly ass with the deerstalker and the magnifying glass. Scriptwriters Derek and Donald Ford develop a delightfully nasty notion: why,not pit the most famous Victorian detective against the most notorious Victorian criminal-lack the Ripper. The confrontation contains some bloody-awful picture possibilities, and Director James Hill (Born Free) has the wit to explode them as he exploits them. The bloodiest, of course, are presented by those scenes in which the Ripper, swathed in the sort of corpse-grey fog the last century...
...routes run parallel to new expressways, Chairman Ben Heineman gambled $50 million on modernizing the Chicago and North Western's commuter service-and won. Patronage is now climbing by 5% a year, and commuter profits this year should reach $2,000,000. Some long-haul travelers still prefer stylish comfort to speed. Bookings have risen for the Atlantic Coast Line's Florida Special since it put in movies and television, hired hostesses to give fashion shows, threw in free champagne and cigars with candlelit dinners...
...most lavish spectacle ever conjured by the Met, a triumph in a season of new productions that so far have ranged from big-scale to boffo. In Antony and Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...
...relax. Never have clothes been more stylish, well-made and-more to the point-wearable. As always, they are suited to the American woman's casual, active way of life, which has made comfort, simplicity and an effortless fit the hallmark of U.S. clothing everywhere. More important, as the American woman's tastes and interests have become increasingly varied and sophisticated, the $15 billion-a-year U.S. industry has learned how to create a distinctively "American look" not only for sportswear and daytime outfits-long American specialties -but in formal ball gowns and cocktail dresses as well...
SWEET CHARITY. As Toulouse-Lautrec memorialized the cancan girls of Pans, Director Bob Fosse celebrates the taxi dancers of New York with stylish staging and sophisticated choreography. Owen Verdon is a terpsichorean tornado as a gal who has a lot of love to give-if she could only find a taker...