Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Debutante of the Year, and young Lady Beatty. But except for the consistently smart Duchess of Kent and the occasional piquancy of Princess Margaret, the royal family itself is too safe and sane to serve as popular fashion plates for Britain's enterprising young women. Instead they have turned to film stars. First, notes the British Harper's Bazaar, there were "the ubiquitous and slightly blurred carbons of Elizabeth Taylor ... Since then, passing through the [Audrey] Hepburn phase, we are now being subjected to miniature Bardots." Most favored place in the sun, where thousands of newly affluent working...
...Well, all right. But, too, it hops, skips and jumps all over the then-known world. All the world's a stage, perhaps; but no stage can be all the world. As to action, there is nothing that can really be called a plot-line. We have instead a diffuse, kaleidoscopic melange of tiny incidents. The work contains, believe it or not, forty-two scenes some only five or six lines long: and they often go by and shift locale with cinematic speed. In fact, Shakespeare has given us less a stage play than a movie script; and the camera...
...office attraction and nominal star of the evening is Menasha Skulnik, for whom the supporting part of Menelaus has been not-very-gracefully beefed up. Instead of a characterization, Mr. Skulnik offers Mr. Skulnik. He understandably refuses to give up the accent and mannerisms which have served him so well over the years (probably he is unable to give them up); but as a result, he is wildly miscast as a gentile, and out of key not only with La Belle Helene, but even with the bastardized Helen of Troy. Worse yet, he debases his authentic and endearing talent...
...exploitation of sadistic violence as public entertainment," they tell us. The presence of these words in the platform implies that President Eisenhower's administration has been responsible for all these, just as Frank Church suggested in his keynote address that the Republicans had been spending Federal funds on deodorants instead of slum clearance or schools...
...ways," but possibly -an explanation the children much prefer-because his relatives have chained him to his bed. Dill has the notion that Boo might be lured out if a trail of lemon drops were made to lead away from his doorstep. Scout and Jem try a midnight invasion instead, and this stirs up so much commotion that Jem loses his pants skittering back under the fence...