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...recovery of a few life-enriching shards of history and art is well worth the loss of hundreds of Legion and Arab lives. "We're both in the grave business," sneers Hackman. "You dig them up and I fill them in." Later, Von Sydow seems to lose the thread of the argument and takes to sitting in corners and gazing hungrily at Deneuve...
...Saint Laurent has designed the emperor's new clothes. His soft, flowing dresses, characterized by full sleeves and a loose obi caressing the hips, are adaptations of angular Chinese designs. Over these dresses or over satin pants are worn gargantuan wraps-a peplum coat sewn with real gold thread cloth, costing over $200 a meter, or a massive Genghis Khan jacket made of iridescent brocades and lined with fur. Saint Laurent set off his ensembles with high-heeled boots and a variety of hats, including pillbox and coolie styles...
...variation appears alongside Halston's hot pink: Norma Kamali's shirred-front, low-cut version in red Spandex. Maillots are less substantial than they seem. Says Tilley: "I wanted to see how little it took to hold the maillot together. It took a mere half-inch of thread-about as much as a string bikini." The jade model worn by Cheryl weighs 3 oz. "The maillot reveals the best and conceals the worst," says Halston. "It's sexier than an unruly curve." Many curves will be covered this summer but more visible than ever. Pace Mies...
...raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic and pointless kind of football with no rules. The game consisted of several players kicking a bean-stuffed ball around a courtyard in which stood certain trees-cherry, maple, pine, bamboo and (here worked in gold thread into the red ground) willow...
...Lines come in pairs. Michael, a handsome writer selfishly intent on finishing his first novel, is married to vulnerable-looking Laura (Gwen Welles). Their opposite numbers are Harry (John Heard) and Abbie (Lindsay Crouse), a writer and photographer whose on-again, off-again relationship composes thz film's central thread. Heard is so blondly good-looking, gifted and vulnerable, that it's hard at times to understand Crouse's reluctance to stay paired up with him. The chief explanation the film offers is that Abbie is in some ways Michael's counterpart--as laden with egotism as she is with...