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Lest you think the evening was a total loss, however. I should point out that there was an incredible old lady sitting across from me in the theatre. She must have been about 75, and she was wearing a trim midnight blue dress and a wild orange velvet hat. Her face was fierce and dark, but she stayed for the whole play, perhaps to see what the Harvard freaks were up to. I don't think she saw what she came for, but her face and her hat made the evening endurable for at least one member of the audience...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Theatregoer Next Time I'll Sing to You at the Leeb through March 7 | 2/27/1970 | See Source »

...direction because Peter Bell is a singer and a guitar player. When he comes floating right into sight, dissolving into nothingness, and then reappearing-poof!-like magic, you know that music is going to be created right before your very eyes. You'll be able to see the golden, velvet (rippling soft like... fur) colors pouring out of his guitar and blending into the room like they belong there...

Author: By Felix Mantilla, | Title: Peter Bell | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

...black velvet cat from...

Author: By Christina Starobin, | Title: No Headline | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

...Search for Happiness in the lower lobby in which Grandpa wades through a miasmic heaven in a white shirt, white tie, and white ducks to be united with a tearful grandmother and a white host of the saved. I went to the Esquire Theatre to see Black Velvet, a low budget stag that cost maybe forty fifty dollars in which Julie (Kim Alison) uses her behemoth body, cleverly concealed throughout in layers of underwear and oleo, to buy enough social mobility to climb from a truck stop waitress job to the high dive of the Las Vegas Starlite where Brad...

Author: By Richard D. Rosen, | Title: Found Poems A Short Cultural History of Salt Lake City | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...that Lady Bird's sense of theater did not emerge until she was well into her White House residency. Pat Nixon is barely emerging from the wings, but at a preview last month of Bob Hope's Christmas show, she turned up in an apricot-colored, clipped-velvet evening gown by Beene that lent a new breath of chic to the proceedings. With Clara Treyz beside her, the salon vote may yet be hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Pat's Wardrobe Mistress | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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