Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SKILL of the director and his staff explodes on the stage with all the pyrotechnics of Lenny Bruce's imagination For the long period she had to consider--the Korean war to 1966--Jan Stauffer designed costumes both appropriate and stylish for the respective scenes. Kevin Benjamin made his functional platform set a fantastic construction slopping and painting the platforms and adding a fifteen foot obelisk. The yellow vertical is used to delightful advantage in two of Lenny's elaborate company scenes. Christ and Moses appear at the top in one scene, staring solemnly in the luminous aura...
...depicts the young Holliday. In other parts of the movie, the contrast between her and Lady Day is so extreme that it is laughable. The difference between the two women is especially evident in the opening scenes where Ross portrays Holliday undergoing heroin withdrawal. The vision of the usually stylish ex-Supreme being strait-jacketed as she has hysterics is so unexpected that the audience mickers instead of sympathizing...
...resulting obsession with manners and surfaces. If the film lacks quite as much force as it might have had, that is because the targets themselves have been pretty well battered by this time. The actors do all they can and work considerable charm; Rey, Seyrig and Audran are especially stylish...
Died. Norman Norell, 72, grand old man of Manhattan's ready-to-wear fashion designers; after a stroke; in Manhattan. The son of an Indiana haberdasher, Norell first gained success as a costume designer for silent movies. In 1941 he teamed with Manufacturer Anthony Traina to produce stylish ready-to-wear fashions on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, quickly establishing himself as a leading competitor of the Paris couturiers. In 1960 Norell opened his own firm. Simple, almost prim necklines were his trademark, elegantly tailored pantsuits and sequin gowns his specialty. Norell's creations became known...
...Donnell, 62, sold out his North Carolina oil-truck fleet two years ago and retired to Fort Lauderdale, where he lives with his wife in a stylish condominium apartment. "After I retired," he says, "we traveled all over the United States in a station wagon, sleeping on the ground in sleeping bags. I know