His dark, thick crop of hair brushed out of his face, dressed in ivory ducks, a navy button-down shirt and the wire-rim glasses of the inveterate bookworm, the director is unwinding at Calle Ocho, a humming Pan-Latin eatery, just steps from the new Rose Center for Earth and Space on the Upper West Side.
And then the sun did come out and on the thick, cropped grass of the football stadium, hosting a European rugby game for the first time, the scene was perfectly set for some sparkle on the playing side.
Ms. Nelligan, 76, is tall, with thick, cropped, graying hair and dark gold-flecked eyes.
A photograph of her in her youth shows a woman who looks as if she is living in the 1960s, rather than the 1930s, with her thick, cropped hair, sleeveless dress and bare legs.
The riding crop will have a thick end that forms a handle.
As tailored as the collection looked, there was invariably an overscale gesture — a navy sweater done in the shape of knotted rope, a cropped vest with a thick edge of glossy black fur, a pleated silk dress in conch-shell pink with a dramatic swag.
When they hatch, the squabs are fed by both parents on "pigeon's milk", a thick secretion high in protein produced by the crop.
It is falling on ground covered with a thick layer of portents of doom before draining away to the fields to rot those crops.
