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...Field to Sakowitz in Houston and Bullock's in Los Angeles. Current symbol of the freer male attitude is the turtleneck pullover now being worn by just about everybody from Lyndon Johnson, who fancies the comfort of turtlenecks for travel aboard Air Force One, to the Duke of Windsor, who slips into one for small, informal dinner parties. To go with tuxedos for evening, turtlenecks are becoming fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with French cuffs. Another evening alternative is the Russian-style, high-collared rubashka (cossack shirt), which buttons up the side and is much favored...
...help but deliver the punchline faultlessly every time. Add to this the fact that any joke, no matter how hackneyed, quadruples in laugh-value the moment it is set to music, and you see why the opera Falstaff is as much funner than the play The Merry Wives of Windsor as Gilbert and Sullivan is funnier than Gilbert...
...taking on Muhamed Ali in a match and two returns. She had absolute control over her orchestra and managed to communicate her energy to the players. Her staging of the opera was full of the traditional business but also full of pizazz and fell down only in the Windsor Oak scene, which was uninspired except for the entrance of half the chorus on stilts...
Oliver Smith's scenery has little to recommend it but ingenuity. It consists of a turntable sliced into three sets, and is exciting only when the table turns and sets change. When it is sitting still it cramps the actors. The Windsor Park set is just plain dull...
Nothing Exaggerated. De La Renta is strictly a wholesale designer (exceptions: his wedding dresses for Anne Ford Uzielli and Minnie Gushing Beard). Among his customers are Babe Paley, the Duchess of Windsor and all the Kennedys except Jackie, whose loyalty is still to Rome's Valentino. Says De La Renta of his dress of the year: "It's very feminine. There is nothing exaggerated about it, and many different types of women can wear...