Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following the herd instinct, several stars, including Taylor, Mario Thomas and Marisa Berenson, ordered their gowns from Halston. The popular mode was the strapless wisp of chiffon skirt slit to the waist, that seemed about to fly off or shiver to the floor. Margaux Hemingway, looking like a jumbo stick of red-and-white peppermint candy, stumbled fetchingly over the names she read aloud; Elliott Gould, aware that practically every man present was betting on the results of the night's basketball game, produced the most popular aside of the night by muttering, when his partner intoned the ritualistic...
Watching Ford fall, the crowd had no way of knowing that he had not been hit. Spectators screamed. Agents and police rushed toward the wisp of smoke drifting up from Moore's gun. "Lynch the bastard!" someone shouted. "Kill him now!" yelled someone else, unaware that the assailant was a woman. San Francisco Policemen Timothy Hettrich and Gary Lemos dove at Moore, knocking her to the ground. Hettrich grabbed the cylinder of the revolver so that it could not turn and bring up another bullet. Patrolman William S. Taylor grabbed her hair. "Goddamit! Goddamit!" one officer shouted as he pounded...
...village steeple in Italy, calling the peasants from the surrounding fields to the Sunday service. The blue cover of the exam book in front of us becomes the alluring azure of an Algerian afternoon sky. The steam from a dining hall cup of coffee becomes the aromatic wisp from a demitasse of espresso sipped in a sidewalk cafe on Paris Left Bank. As March matures into April, as the countdown progresses from seven to five to three days before we can board our planes and trains for the outside world, the symbols deepen into a mythology both rapturous...
King of Hearts. The Central Cinema has issued a release claiming that as this flimsy, forgettable, escapist wisp of a movie enters its fifth year it becomes the world's longest running picture in one theater. The Guiness Book of World Records, however, reported in 1969 that a theater in Egypt had been showing Me Tarzan, You Jane since September, 1949. So there...
...shaping of this Berlioz semiopera. Although it overflows with melody, Berlioz's musical transformation of Goethe is generally known only by three orchestral pieces- the exuberant Rákdóczy March, the Dance of the Sylphs and the Minuet of the Will o' the Wisp. With out diminishing the lushness of the com poser's symphonic texture, Ozawa's crisp tempi add clarity and continuity to the 20-scene, four-part work. The oval sounds of Soprano Edith Mathis brush a fresh bloom on Marguerite's Romance (D'amour I'ardenteflamme...