Word: corset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Greg Delawie has let all the lady's flabby flesh burst through her corset. He retains unaltered the play's weakest scenes, and even attempts to squeeze a size-14 chorus on the size-6 Dunster stage. The cast gamely bounces around but constantly risk stubbing toes on the furniture. When it isn't under orders to move, it sits blankly on the stage, obscurred from the view of everybody sitting farther back than the third...
...peculiar rather than radical. Its main element is a 660-ft. glass slab laced into a Beaux-Arts, Manhattanist corset of pinky-gray granite. This shaft sits on an entrance block that is an enormous pastiche of the courtyard front of Brunelleschi's 15th century Pazzi Chapel in Florence. One cannot guess from drawings or models how well this will work. To take a small, private Renaissance chapel and inflate it to nearly the size of the Baths of Caracalla is the kind of perversity Johnson enjoys but has never been allowed to do on such a scale before...
...most of the season in the shop for repairs as a rash of injuries crippled key players. The first team played together only 22 times in the first 78 games. Catcher Johnny Bench has missed 33 games with a back injury suffered during an aborted slide. Wearing a thick corset, he is hitting .254 (compared with...
Pacemakers and Corsets. In addition to their long experience, Super-Seniors bring to the court a variety of infirmities. Travis Smith, who enters 15 to 18 tournaments a year, totes to each event a set of electrocardiograms for the benefit of local doctors-should their assistance be needed. His only real problem since a heart attack 15 years ago arose when his first implanted pacemaker proved inadequate for his vigorous regimen. Pacemaker No. 2, he says, works just fine. When Chaffee plays, he wears a steel-ribbed corset to support his back; he has a displaced vertebra...
Early that morning the 335 starting drivers had pulled on hockey shin guards, corset-like plastic chest protectors, and all the cold-weather gear they could wear and still waddle to the starting line. Temperatures were in the low 20s, balmy by St. Paul standards, but at the 80-m.p.h. speeds the racers would soon be traveling, the wind-chill factor would make it seem like -20°. Some of the drivers fashioned long tape-and-rubber noses to keep the vapor of their breath from fogging their goggles. Others applied wide strips of tape to their faces to ward...