Word: wafts
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...just on the complex movements involved but also on the artful commotion as one act swirls into the next. When the teeterboarders have finished (for some marvelously zany reason, they appear as penguins carrying briefcases), their boards must be danced lightly out of the ring. The tightwire supports must waft amusingly into the ring. Now, precisely on cue, Antoine the wire walker plays a soothing tune on his oboe for his nervous partner Agathe. Off to the side, Hand Balancer Amelie Demay, 19, shows a younger girl how to do a handstand on the balance point of a teeterboard...
...stars like the newly slender Robert De Niro, the long-haired Mel Gibson or the wasp-waisted (and pathologically tardy) Elizabeth Taylor, but by that Ruritanian dazzler Princess Diana (called "Lay-dee Dee" by the French), escorted by her Prince. Yet even the royals could not dodge the toxic waft of melancholy. On the day of their visit, French TV announced the death of Rita Hayworth, whose signature film Gilda had played at Cannes' first postwar festival, in 1946. The news was a poignant reminder that the only immortality is on the screen, and that a cinema that lives...
...waft," Barber encourages, beginning to relish the sound...
...York to become, without visible effort, a top model. Director Sidney Lumet gave her the small but P highly important role of the lesbian Lakey in his film of Mary McCarthy's novel The T Group. Playing at moviemak-sing, the blond 19-year-old would waft on set without "sleep after a night on the town, and further outrage the intense young actresses in the cast by taking notes for a "what I did on my summer vacation" article to be published in Esquire...
...attitudes and the looks of black teen-agers have a way of working themselves off the streets and into closets all over town, just as the work of high-fashion designers becomes assimilated into a more generalized style. Fashion does not just waft down to the streets. It also comes up from there. In rap style you find not only a retro-replay of the past and a sometimes ironic comment on it, but also a fast back alley to the future...