Word: dressing
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Last week the Brazilian government sought to quell the outcry with an ambitious new environmental program. The plan, titled Our Nature, was announced by Sarney during a full-dress ceremony at Brasilia's Planalto Palace. To a chorus of applause from Brazil's top military brass and nine state governors, Sarney outlined a program that would be set into motion by 35 new decrees and proposed laws. Among other things, the plan calls...
Luckily for the audience, Hilarion usually appears in the company of the courtiers Cyril (Arthur Fuscaldo) and Florian (Steven Mooradian). And unlike Hilarion, the two of them are hilarious. When the trio dress up in ruffled academic gowns and pose as women, merriment overflows. Cyril in particular is a joy to watch as he hops, skips and boozes his way around the castle. In Cyril's company, Lady Psyche (Lisa Harris) recovers from a lackluster entrance scene and provides her mate-to-be with amusing counterpoint...
...This week was a dress rehearsal for Redwood Shores [next weekend's west coast regatta]," heavyweight Captain Juliet Thompson said. "Last year, we raced MIT at a 30 [stroke rating], went to Redwood Shores and were overstroked, so this year, even though we were lengths ahead of MIT, we wanted to stick to the race plan...
...movies four times as often as Americans and ten times as often as the British. Today Soviets get to watch sexual barriers fall like dominoes in slow motion. Little Vera features a love scene -- 82 seconds of topless necking and a quick tickle under Vera's dress -- that has shot viewers' eyebrows up through their hairlines. By American cable-TV standards the episode might be tame, but in a culture as repressed erotically as it is politically, Little Vera is big news...
...almost an accident we became so popular," says Sukachev, 29, who worked in a factory before he could make it with his music. Only two years ago, Sukachev and fellow band members were routinely hauled into local police stations and asked to explain their hairstyles and unusual dress. When the band's photograph appeared in a French magazine in 1986, Sukachev was taken to KGB headquarters for questioning. These days, all that has changed. On a recent trip back to his high school, Sukachev was surprised to hear himself described as the school pride. Says he: "I used...