Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading stage role ougth never to be entrusted with the direction of the production. Never? Never! There is no qualifying Gilbert-and-Sullivan "well, hardly ever" about it. I don't care how gifted a person is in acting and directing; he should not be permitted to wear both hats at once. And this applies just as much to Olivier as to Ritchard. On occasion Olivier has achieved an impressive result with a work he has both supervised and acted in; but there have nonetheless always been flaws that a separate director could have corrected...
Robert Fletcher has garbed the aristocracy in Empire costumes of the Napoleonic period, with an emphasis on brown, white, and gold. The two love-smitten maidens wear identical low-necked, high-waisted white gowns, with a blue sash for Helena and a pink one for Hermia. The "mechanicals" are outfitted in rough reds, oranges, and yellows. Fletcher had, paradoxically, a field day with the forest folk--Titania and her fairies in green and pink, the bicorn Oberon and his winged retinue in sequined blues...
...streets (TIME, June 23). As the volunteer patrol grew to 150, the leaders were astonished at its popularity. "In my neighborhood," said one, "as many as five or six guys would share one helmet. They'd say, 'Hey, man, it's my turn to wear that...
Miniskirts may be popular with the women who wear them, but in the past few months they have been denounced by ex-President Eisenhower, condemned by Designer Coco Chanel, blasted by King Hassan II of Morocco, banned in Tunisia, prohibited in Rumania, and ridiculed at Ascot. Nowhere, however, has the reaction been as cutting as in the populous copper-belt towns of northern Zambia. There, thigh-high skirts have become the objects of a fanatic "culture campaign" directed by local members of President Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P...
...Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbonová), live like dolls, chattering and giggling, floundering about in their oversized bed, making a shambles of sets and sense. In scenes suffused with unearthly tints and shades, the girls attack each other with scissors and cut off each other's heads, wear butterflies instead of bikinis, eat food ads instead of food, swing from a chandelier over a banquet table they have just tromped into a mangled mess...