Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late Robert L. Berenson, a proper Bostonian and career diplomat. Her granduncle was the art historian Bernard Berenson. Her mother Gogo, now the Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giuliano, was the daughter of Elsa Schiaparelli, the Parisian designer who introduced colors like shocking pink to the sober world of 1930s haute couture...
Wonderful Town is a curious amalgam. Set in the late 1930s, the show is Bernstein's 1953 adaption of a 1941 hit play that was in turn partially based on Ruth McKinney's book My Sister Eileen. Not too surprisingly, the final product of these transmutations conforms far less to the original--from which it draws only its setting, the two principals and one or two incidents--than to the conventions of musical comedy...
...major industries were more savagely battered by the recent recession than textiles, which suffered a loss of sales so severe that production and employment plunged to levels unseen since the dark days of the 1930s. Today the industry is making a stunningly strong comeback. Mills that were operating only two or three days a week last winter are now spinning and weaving round the clock, five or even six days a week. Sales and output are surging well ahead of the general pace of recovery despite the less than robust condition of two prime textile markets, housing and autos. Unemployment...
...fact that consumer prices are about 7.5% higher than a year ago, that would leave a real gain. Bloomingdale's President Marvin S. Traub says his store could post about a 15% gain over 1974, when the economy was skidding toward the bottom of its worst slump since the 1930s...
...rotund executive being forcibly restrained from plunging after the bar of Ivory in "The Day a Cake of Soap Sank at Proctor and Gamble" is one of the funniest sights ever, but I must agree that a case can be made for obscurity there). And the late 1930s parody, "Life goes to the fall of Western Civilization," is gone too. You had to know the old Life style to laugh at it, but it was so good...