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...Angelo Tarlazzi and Michelle Bruyere, had variations on the skirt-and-sweater theme. The look includes hip-length cardigans, frequently worn over pullovers. Skirts are longish, too, starting at the knee and working all the way down to the ankle. Many billow like peasant dresses. Fashion phrasemakers, with considerable wit, call them "BigSkirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: BigSkirts, Big Prices | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...never cool about the theater, however. It was his cross, his sword, and his crown. He served it with undeviating grace, wit and loyalty. He could not abide anything professionally slipshod on a stage. Once, when a pair of leading actors loafed self-indulgently through a matinee of one of his musicals, he went backstage and tartly chided their performance as "a triumph of nevermind over doesn't-matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Master Entertainer | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...interview, Cuba's Guillermo Cabrera Infante manages to set up a showy verbal circus, as full of puns, mockery and acerb wit as his novel Three Trapped Tigers, which was published in the U.S. last year. He wrote the book in the early 1960s, while employed as a magazine editor and cultural attaché producing revolutionary rhetoric for Fidel Castro, whom he detests-"a gangster who has become a policeman." The only things that are run well in Cuba, Cabrera Infante says, are "the three Ps-police, propaganda and paranoia as a system of government." Not surprisingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: South Toward Home | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...York Times cut into the book with a double-edged blade. It praised Epps's light editorial hand which preserved the essential wit and rhythm of Malcolm X's rhetoric, but added that Epps's essay was "more obscure" than the speeches...

Author: By Christopher H. Foreman, | Title: Archie C. Epps: Black and on the Inside | 3/28/1973 | See Source »

Psalms of Two Davids sits like a merciful cloud on a pallid theatrical landscape. It is most engaging because it is filled with fits of life and envy in a time of profound dramatic boredom. Zwick has had the wit to let his cast try something new in every moment of the play...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: Revenge and Mercy | 3/24/1973 | See Source »

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