Word: whim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost-middle-aged woman who is old enough to understand Robert, and yet so much younger than Candice, the shallow, suave worldling. Catherine reminds one of Julie Christie in Billy Liar--a woman so loving that she will sacrifice her love to her man's happiness...or his whim...
Minus Malvolio, Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, the old plot slides surprisingly well into the with-it world. Viola's whim of dressing in men's clothes, inexplicable in the original, fits in quite naturally with the mod look; she and her brother Sebastian wear identical outfits of zippered yellow tunics and rust trousers, and of course their moptops are the same length. The updated plot involves a singing group known as the Apocalypse, one member of which has just been drafted. Viola, calling herself Charlie, fills in for him; when Orsino, here known as Orson, feels...
Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the prim parochialism of a stuffy 1930s Scottish finishing school for girls. Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play...
...seemed largely an illustration of uncinematic ideas. Therefore, I didn't include it. But this was also the way I felt about Accident, and its selection over Persona simply indicates personal preference for Losey over Bergman. A point is invariably reached when objectivity breaks down and is replaced by whim...
...personality. The important thing is to get a total feeling for what's new and then make it part of yourself." As fashion grows steadily freer and less inhibited, he hopes that whole costumes will become inexpensive enough to be worn briefly, then thrown away on a whim. Nudity? "I think a great deal more of it is going to be around yes, including the topless." Skirts, he believes, are finished and will soon be replaced by tunics combined with tights into two-piece garments. But most of all what Gernreich insists upon is that the dress should never again...