Word: stylishness
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...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
...must have the last word. He is full of contempt for the "morons and madmen," anyone who would laugh, gape or exploit him. Nevertheless he feels the urge to lead this uneducated herd to drink from the reservoir of great art. In concluding what is surely the most stylish lecture of his career, he quotes "Archaic Torso of Apollo," by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke...