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No one in the film comments on any of the frippery.

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Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.

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The more stylized approaches of traditional “Streetcar” revivals aren’t just frippery.

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Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment.

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The sums of money being blown on fripperies are staggering.

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