Word: stylishness
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...limit to a person's trying to look younger than he is," says Rudi. "People simply have to get over their youth hang-up and accept their advancing years as a natural process of life." For senior citizens, Rudi has designed boldly patterned, caftan-like robes with stylish simplicity and stunning colors that may well win him more admirers -young and old alike-than his masculine miniskirts and barbered bodies...
...Tonight Show's attraction rests on its atmosphere of polish and color, an atmosphere created in no small part by the shimmering set, the flashy clothes which Johnny and the bandleader wear (Johnny's wardrobe by Ol?g Cassim), the stylish bandleader. What people say on the show is fairly unimportant: deliberately, Carson keeps the conversation light, and-like the show itself-trivial...
From then on, Lafitte, who changed identities as easily as he changed his stylish clothes, led a double life. Although police records show that he was arrested 23 times in 48 years for fraud, confidence schemes and burglary, they also show that he was a valuable undercover man for the Federal Government. He helped trap some of the late Vito Genovese's mafiosi for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He also posed as a buyer for the FBI, luring thieves into selling him stolen paintings and jewelry and then testifying against them in court...
Private Lives epitomizes these characteristics. It is 40 years old and as young as tomorrow evening. The present production is stylish, smart, and bubbles with frivolity. Coward creates the aura of anticipatory delight. Momentarily, one expects something scandalous to be said, something bizarre to be done, characters to be mesmerically drawn to each other and just as galvanically repulsed by each other. Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald threw iridescent parties in his novels, Coward has saturated his plays with the ambience of sophistication. One always seems to be slumming upwards at a Coward play, forever lingering on a moonlit terrace...
...stylish arguments which plagued that generation are talked out: Nin's temparament embraces Freud, despairs about America, succumbs to the disasters of World War II, and staves off the temptations of Marxism, even as she manages to repair her sensitivity. A remarkable scene in Caresse Crosby's Virginia house involves Dali, Henry Miller, and Nin shouting confusedly at the dinner table; another describes the exhaustion of New York literary society, drunken parties, jazz. The endeavor to write almost seems to subside before the need to simply go on. Even though she was eventually driven to publish her own works...