Word: toga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Translucent Togas. Once past the entry hall, patrons are politely requested to remove their shoes. They are escorted up a ramp into the cavernous main studio, to confront a brain-boggling scene. Dimly distinguishable in the half-light, two dozen or more toga-clad figures are arranged in random fashion around 14 raised platforms, lushly carpeted and joined together by a narrow walkway. Ghostly music emanates from unseen speakers; colored lights flicker over the ceiling and walls. New arrivals are led to platforms, helped into their own translucent togas and encouraged to doff as many of their clothes as they...
...lass and her hairdresser-turned-manager, Justin de Villeneuve, 28, announced they will be married. But not right off, chums. "Twiggy and I will marry when she's 21," announced her steady companion, while the bride-to-be, looking older than her 18 years in a micro-toga, waggled her side curls in agreement. "I don't believe in marrying young," said the Twig. And there's another little thing, continued Justin: Twiggy says she wants a ring bigger than Liz Taylor's 33.19-carat, $305,000 sparkler-which might take time...
Herein lies the Startford production's main shortcoming. Kathleen Dabney is attractive enough in her blue toga streaked with green, but she just doesn't give evidence of meriting her position as a leader of the Christian prisoners. Her Lavinia lacks fervor and intensity; and some of her lines don't ring true...
What How I Won The War proves is that a serious anti-war movie cannot be told in the same cacciatore style that works so well with the Beatles or Zero Mostel in a toga. Of the welter of punches Lester aims at his broad target, only a few can land with appreciable force. The rest necessarily have to deflect off each other, mutually weakening themselves. When John Lennon, in his non-Beatle debut, dies, he dies in a realistic ugly field with realistic blood spewing from his abdomen. But he doesn't just die realistically. He sits there, observes...
...stylish frenzy, bringing them together for the well chosen musical numbers. These, one might add, are among the best moments in the film and the ones where Lester's style is most impressive. Who else, for instance, would put Zero Mostel, Jack Glifford, and Phil Silvers in a toga kickline atop an aqueduct singing "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid...