Word: velvets
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...situation, which he eagerly and secretively displays to his reader. He should ideally be read-or rendered--in a heavy Victorian atmosphere itself rich in distracting detail. Mr. Williams attempted to recreate this mood by dressing himself as Dickens, beard and all, by reading from frayed volumes on a velvet-topped desk copied from that which the author used in his own "Readings" of his works and by clever use of heavy and shadowy lighting...
...fortune by the letters in his name. He treated topics that intellectuals had been apt to ignore before. He spent hours studying iron foundries and gunpowder mills at first hand, imported workers from the factories of Lyons to help him with an article on the velvet trade...
...Broadway will be: Laurence Olivier's production of Christopher Fry's Venus Observed, with Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison; Fancy Meeting You Again, a play about reincarnation by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath; Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk's Modern Primitive; Enid (National Velvet) Bagnold's Gertie, starring Glynis Johns...
Roberta bought a $235 Christian Dior suit of purple faille, Marilyn a $100 strapless aqua cocktail dress with a rhinestone-trimmed jacket, and Eileen a lavender, gold-embroidered blouse and a black velvet skirt. The girls bought $50 blouses. They bought expensive shoes. They bought gloves. They bought piles of lingerie. They bought stockings. They went to a beauty parlor and Roberta became a blonde and Marilyn a redhead. They hurried to the hotel, decked themselves in their finery, and went to the Latin Quarter, a big, gaudily-decorated Broadway nightclub...
...Blame Me (Sarah Vaughan; M-G-M). Sarah gambols over the scale in what sounds like a big try to avoid the melody at all costs. When she does run into melody, she gives it a velvet ride...