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DIED. Enid Bagnold, 91, British playwright and novelist whose elegant, carefully wrought works include the Broadway and London hit The Chalk Garden (1955) and the 1935 novel National Velvet, which nine years later became a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, then twelve years old; in London. Bagnold, who was married for 42 years to Sir Roderick Jones, longtime chairman of the Reuters news agency, demanded three hours every day for writing in their 35-room mansion in Rotting-dean, Sussex...
...satin blouses, strictly tailored jackets, capes and large T-shaped wool ponchos. Many of Armani's favorite colors-shades of beige, brown, rust, taupe, gray, black, traces of cobalt blue-are subtly combined in a single ensemble. Favorite materials for pants and jackets are houndstooth checks, herringbone tweeds, velvet, flannel and, for evening, stiff satin. At night the baroque steps out: long silk crepe dresses, many strapless; spangled black tunics with full sleeves worn over black satin bermudas; tunics and jackets in velvet and satin over pants...
...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...