Word: velvets
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Verrett's gypsy go-go girl was proud, alluring, pantherlike, intelligent and vocally velvet. Right at the start, in the opening Habanera, she rejected the tradition that makes Carmen a menacing femme fatale. "The music of the Habanera is not heavy," she says. "It is elegant, light, playful, seductive. If Carmen is nasty all the time, who needs that kind of woman, really?" Instead, Verrett was childish, beautiful, desirable -the kind of woman other women like despite her sexual superiority. "Then when she gets angry at Don José in the third act, it's a different character...
...accommodating traffic. The city of London had sold its slowly sinking span for stone-by-stone reconstruction in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., a new town of 3,000 on the Colorado River, and Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Lord Mayor of London, was there for the cornerstone laying. Resplendent in black velvet and heavy gold braid and accompanied by his official sword-bearer and macebearer, he was honored by Governor Jack Williams at a dinner for 400, including that noted Tory Barry Go Id water. Next day Jesus Esquerra, an Indian chief whose Chemehuevi tribe once owned the land, presented Sir Gilbert...
...trapeze line, that crowds gathered outside the Dior headquarters on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, crying "Au balcon!" until he emerged on the balcony to wave. Branching out under his own name, he scored again, producing 1962's long tunics. Successive years brought flat shoes and knee socks, velvet knickers, the Mondrian look followed by theatrical African designs, then chains and more chains, and now pants...
...executives considered the show such a top secret that they referred to it only as "Project X," dispatched carpenters to Carnegie Hall to shore up the aging stage. Talcum powder was sprinkled between the boards to eliminate creaks caused by the movement of cameras. TV crewmen were provided with velvet slippers. Producer-Director Roger Englander boned up on scores so that camera angles could be synchronized with changes in the mood of the music. Then, one day last January, two simulated performances were videotaped. Only after all this-which cost a big chunk of the $275,000 that CBS spent...
...cause of Barrault's dismissal was his role in last May's student riots. During the demonstrations, anarchist rebels from the Sorbonne "liberated" the Odéon and turned it into a discussion hall. They also destroyed 50% of the sets, ripped up red velvet seats and urinated on costumes. Barrault wept when he saw the damage, but government officials believed that he tacitly allowed the rebels to take over. Barrault also took the stage to proclaim his sympathy with student goals and to denounce France's "bourgeois culture...