Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Penthouse trial, Spence used a typical strategy: portraying his client as a simple, small victim of big malign forces. To the six Cheyenne jurors, he characterized Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, 50, as an arrogant, unprincipled New Yorker, "the gentleman sitting over there in the velvet pants." When Guccione suggested that only people with the intelligence of a "flatworm" would think the disputed article was nonfiction, Spence, a University of Wyoming law graduate, began to refer to himself and fellow state residents as mere flatworms. He also listed 15 similarities between Pring and the protagonist of the article, which described...
ACTING. DIRECTING, and everything ineffable slides into place in this production; it is the visual and tangible that is out of place. The costumes immediately jar the senses: lots of lavendar, orange, turquoise and pink; big ribbons on sleeves, cuffs and collars; droopy ruffles, fringe, textured velvet and clunky platform shoes on all the men. Of course, 300 years ago, people dressed with excessive ornamentation by today's standard, but the costumes, far from evoking the period, resemble ancient clown suits. They result from a mistaken conception of Moliere's time. Perhaps designer Dru Minton Clark simply concurs with what...
This play begins in a death chamber. Gray, broody castle walls define the prison cell. In the dim light, we make out the anguished figure of a woman in a sackcloth shift. It is Mary Stuart, pretender to the English throne, and the velvet-covered block on which she sits will soon receive her severed head...
...bidders explains why. There is a lively market in the Orient for powdered elkhorn, a surefire aphrodisiac, and an 18-to 20-lb. rack of antlers will bring about $105 per lb.: "Of course, you got to cut the rack off when it's still in velvet, and some folks think that's cruel, but it don't do no real harm, and you still got your...
...thuggish way, though, the Czech authorities showed they were onto something when they bridled at Kundera's latest work. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is deeply and impressively subversive, in more ways than one. Kundera not only raps the iron knuckles of totalitarianism; he coolly unravels the velvet glove of liberalism...