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Floating Zoo. Last week Huston was functioning furiously in both guises. As Noah, with a full grey beard and wearing a coarse beige tunic, he was striding up and down the gangplank of the $300,000 ark made of roughhewn logs. As director, he moved inside the 200-ft.-long, 60-ft.-high ark-one of five to be used in the film-to supervise 200 animals that had been brought down over the Alps from Althoffs Circus and were undergoing their first try at bedding down...
...Genesis, for example, is Joseph's coat of many colors. "It's a wonderful technicolored effect," says Speiser. "But we had to put it in mothballs. In those days everybody wore a coat of many colors. Besides, the Hebrew clearly states that he wore an ornamented tunic...
Alighting at the church, the Queen gave a motherly jerk at the bridegroom's tunic to smooth a remaining wrinkle. Looking slightly dazzled as any 18-year-old bride might, Anne-Marie followed in a coach with her father, Denmark's King Frederik, nearly tripped on the 18-ft. train of her white duchesse satin gown as she stepped down from the carriage. She carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley, which later she sent to be laid at the grave of her husband's late father, King Paul...
...answer did not satisfy Lord Alexander. As far as he is concerned, Anglican Communion already resembles too closely the Roman Catholic Mass; and the measure to permit the use of the alb (a long-sleeved white tunic), the chasuble (a poncholike garment), the amice (a linen neckcloth) and the maniple (a band of cloth worn on the left arm) would strengthen what the London Times called a "drift toward the Roman Catholic form of service...
...Mount Morris Park in Harlem, a neighborhood where the wail of police sirens is a part of the constant atmosphere. There all the big trucks staged an incongruous arrival, grunting and respirating into position on a baseball field while crowds gathered. Soon a rehearsing actor was standing in a tunic and sandals before a gaping group of Harlem youths. He tried to explain to them that in the play he is a character called Demetrius, who gets lost in the woods...