Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they grew older and realized that there was more to hair than a faddish protest, that in washing it, setting it, curling it, and cutting it there was a substantial profit to be made. Gone are the blue jeans, love beads, marijuana pipes, and Jimi Hendrix; In are velvet pants, platform shoes, sports coupes, and Jim Beam. Yet there remains the glibness of the cultural representation, be it theater or cinema, that attempts to sum up in a concise, marketable statement the spirit of the times...
Something Magic. Müller, a slight man who habitually wears black trousers, a black sweater, a black velvet jacket and a picador's black hat, does not stop at enclosing Parisian derelicts in plastic bubbles. Among the larger bubbles he has designed and built are an inflatable theater that seats 800 people and an inflatable church that conveniently folds down to a 2-ft. by 4-ft. package after services. His passion for bubbles has also hit him where he lives: a shimmering, red-and-white candy-striped vinyl bubble house at the edge of a forest...
...show succeeds, it seems almost accidental. In yearning to return to the freedom of the cartoon form, the costumes come into their element. Animating the entire production with her lively imagination and sense of the ridiculous, costume director Martha Burtt uses everything from Oblio's pajamas and orange velvet tails to an ingenious suit of foam boulders for Rock Man and a new-born bird outfit for Baby Pterodactyl...
...velvet voice still purrs with gentle sadism, and at around 350 lbs., Orson Welles' presence is more commanding than ever. But gone is the baby-faced villainy that made Harry Lime and Mr. Rochester essays of anarchy, and muffled is the sly sardonic spirit with which Welles, as a 24-year-old enfant terrible, created Citizen Kane. Even as a tired king of the jungle, though, Welles, now 59, easily dominated the festivities at Los Angeles' Century Plaza Hotel where the American Film Institute gave him its Life Achievement Award. Before an audience of 1,200, including Frank...
...gala starring Guest of Honor Ethel Kennedy and Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie to raise money for the impoverished U.S. Indians. Although some 300 guests paid up to $125 a ticket, the host could not even light a peace pipe right. Wearing a navy velvet jacket and turquoise beads given him by a Hopi chief, Brando arrived flanked by three magnificently attired Indians after announcing: "There's something obscene about dressing up and inviting a lot of rich people to raise money for the Indians." Paparazzo Ron Galella, who was felled last year by Brando...