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...days in heavy thought, and emerged with the sketches that formed the basis for the New Look. He explains: "We were leaving a period of war, of uniforms, of soldier-women with shoulders like boxers. I turned them into flowers, with soft shoulders, blooming bosoms, waists slim as vine stems, and skirts opening up like blossoms." More informally, he has admitted that the New Look was based on a glimpse "of the heaving hipline of a female Paris fishmonger...
...fill the vast, open spaces of the Met's stage with Todd-AO-sized vistas of a kind rarely viewed by a courtesan in Verdi's mid-19th century Paris. Under Tyrone Guthrie's posturing direction, Violetta entertained her first-act guests in a towering, vine-entwined conservatory, while in the third act the chorus moved confusingly up and down a curving marble staircase. Costume Designer Rolf Gerard provided the principal ladies with frothy, subtle-hued dresses scarcely calculated to deliver a message even to the most lickerish-eyed boulevardier. As for Soprano Tebaldi, although...
...basalt entrance into the spacious waiting rooms, screened by a shoji. The long, sky-lit corridor (which has warm, hand-rubbed oak-flooring walls) leads to the ten consulting rooms, each soundproofed to silence, looks out through a full glass wall onto a serene, narrow garden court planted with vine maples and deciduous huckleberries, and backed by a plastic fence paneled in off-white, honey and burnt orange...
...finest wines, produced from severely pruned vines, there can never be great quantities. The sad fact was, however, that a vine-killing winter and a rainy, grape-thwarting summer had turned 1956 into a bad year for all western Europe's winegrowers-a disastrous one for Bordeaux and West Germany, a poor one in both quantity and quality for Burgundy. The government has 'already given Burgundy producers permission to strengthen some of their poorer grades by chaptalization. a doctoring process devised by one Jean Chaptal for adding sugar during fermentation to build up a wine's alcoholic...
Last week the word went round the docks that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had decided to let the reform I.B.L. die on the vine. Reason: the firmly dug-in I.L.A. workers are making better money these days under more stabilized working conditions, provided by the New York Harbor Waterfront Commission, would almost certainly win again in an election this year...