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...princes of the House of Saud. While Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, briefed the King on the audience, Kazimi and Prince Faisal, apparently a former classmate of Kazimi's, waited outside. When Yamani returned to usher Kazimi inside, the prince tagged along...
...fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher in the modern age of sensuous, nonconfining women's clothing...
Cornelius, the programmer (Jenny Runacre) and the three scientists rather tentatively join forces to avert Armageddon and usher in a new age. It will be the time of what Cornelius' ex ophthalmic guru (Hugh Griffith) calls a "new messiah, born of an age of science." At the end of this giddy, spectacular and sometimes quite funny fantasy, the neo-messiah makes his debut...
...find a pliable paramour and introduces him to the world of popular music and drugs. Harry listens to hot jazz (remember, this is 1927), snorts a little white powder and generally acts confused. Eventually Hermine and her jazz musician crony Pablo (Pierre Clementi) decide that Harry is prepared and usher him into their Magic Theater. As rendered by Director Haines, the experience is like being sealed inside a demoniac color television set. The Magic Theater experiences convince Harry, in the words of the novel, to "see the ruins of my being as fragments of the divine." Lesser mortals would have...
Sign up to usher for Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Dean's Office, Lehman B-3. Performances are August...