Word: dressier
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...singer who used to entertain the towel-clad clientele at Manhattan's gay Continental Baths, Bette Midler can look forward to at least a dressier audience this January at the New York State Theater. Belting Bette is scheduled to appear there with the New York City Ballet in a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins. Celebrated Choreographer George Balanchine chose her to play the lead role of the peripatetic showgirl Annie, a part created in 1933 by Weill's widow Lotte Lenya. Why? "She has a good voice...
...belts, as Givenchy does them. Suits emphasize the midriff too, with slim skirts, or skirts tucked to the hipbone, worn with jackets that skim the body closely. Jersey, flannel and gabardine are daytime favorites, with the emphasis on navy, white and variations on tones of beige; and the dressier clothes lean to muslins, chiffons and thin crepes in soft prints, like Dior's pointillist patterns, blurring from color to color to color...
...exaggerated his own importance. One of the letters of recommendation over Dressler's signature indicated that Rosenfeld single-handed had thought up the whole idea for the research project. That hyperbole aroused the suspicion of M.I.T. Immunologist Herman Eisen, who had reviewed the recommendation. Eisen mentioned it to Dressier-and the chain of forgeries was unfolded...
...part, Dressier, 33, has written a "statement of uncertainty and potential retraction" to the scientific journals that had published papers about the project. Dressier says that he will try to reproduce the experiments for another six months before giving up, but adds, "It's only human to have doubts." James Watson is more definite. Says he: "I think it's best to conclude that the transfer factor doesn't exist...
...irony of the affair is that Rosenfeld, the son of a Lancaster, Pa., rabbi and a straight-A student, did not have to falsify either experiments or documents to guarantee his future. Dressier says that he would have been admitted to any medical school in the country just on the basis of his grades...