Word: albert
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...Albert Nipon, then a manufacturer of staid maternity clothes, became the talk of the fashion world in the early 1970s when he introduced a line of ultra-feminine dresses. When the fashions appeared, everyone else was selling sportswear and jeans, but the carefully tailored garments were quickly snapped up by Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and other tony department stores. The onetime Du Pont accountant was on his way. Sales of Nipon's dresses (price: $100 to $2,000) this year are expected to reach $60 million, and he has collected a clutch of celebrity customers, including Mary Tyler...
What is immediately striking and highly effective is the set, simple in appearance but truly complex. Jennings and designer Albert Webster deserve plaudits for the sheer cleverness of the entire three-level set rising from under a bare white cover, suggesting a reborn Phoenix rising from the embers of the protagonist's imagination. Less successful, however, are the rather eerie and harsh sounding original score and the flashing colored lights in the background, tending to be more an annoying distraction than a subtle evocation of mood...
Senate seats vacated by the retirement of popular incumbents offer a chance for two rising stars in the Democratic Party to become more visible nationally: West Virginia Governor John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV and Tennessee Congressman Albert Gore Jr., both scions of famous families...
When Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker announced that he would not run for reelection, jubilant Tennessee Democrats figured that his seat was theirs practically for the asking. Baker had no well-known Republican protégés within the state, and Democrat Albert Gore Jr. immediately staked his claim. The seat once belonged to his father, who had served as one of the Senate's most eminent members for 18 years. After four terms in the House and plum congressional committee assignments, handsome, likable "Prince Albert" was a Capitol Hill golden boy. In the midsummer polls...
...Teapot Dome scandal of 1923, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty were charged with crimes after leaving office. So were three Nixon Administration officials in the Watergate period: Attorney General John Mitchell, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans...