Word: velvets
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Chester Weinberg zippers one sweater dress straight up the middle, slashes a velvet version well above the knees, and matches a short suede battle jacket to a "hula skirt" made entirely of strips of suede. Pierre Cardin's ready-to-wear collection stars a three-toned jersey midi slit in front and back, and others slashed into inverted U's or petal shapes...
Elly Stone made it an ingredient of her debut. Oceans of eerie quiet still surround Brel's 16-bar novellas at every performance. The narrow, tremulous wraith appears in black velvet pants and jacket, a little lace jabot at her throat. The mordant chords purl from the back of the stage, and she becomes an authentically possessed figure. On the slow numbers, the words are not sung; they seem to float from her throat. The uptempo songs could survive almost any rendition, but when Elly sings them, she charges them with alternating currents of energy and melancholia. She does...
Girl snuffled and Merilee reached over the edge of the bathtub and found her velvet ear, the one with the chunk gone, and stroked it. The keeds had wanted to come in the water with them, but Sam had disallowed the: and Merilee felt badly for Girl...
...shouted at again. Once more she envisioned the lovely gown, but it was behind glass now and its story did not move. The beads had died. She thought she heard Sam threatening to leave her and she touched Girl's ragged left ear for luck and strength. Velvet ear of Girl...
Gardner, who died last week at the age of 80, was the Mrs. Wagner of the genre. Since The Case of the Velvet Claws, the first of his Perry Mason mysteries, was published in 1933, his books have been bestsellers all over the world. Millions have come to know the portly defense counselor from the television serial. As far off as Saudi Arabia, Perry Mason reruns have the population wondering about the advantages of the jury system over King Feisal's rigid religious courts...