Word: babushkas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grooming Babushkas. They were soon turning Cleveland upside down, each hoping to win the impulsive Vail reaction to a story well done: "Terrific, just terrific!" Investigative reporting became the order of the day. Lawyers were shown to be collecting large fees from estates without heirs. Wretched conditions at children's welfare homes were exposed. One reporter posed as a Skid Row bum in order to find out who was stealing food from state-supported shelters. Vail created a department of urban affairs, sent its editor to study at Northwestern University for three months. He hired a fashion reporter from...
...arms and legs), a Negro head, Clark Kent's shirt being ripped open (by Clark Kent's hands), four tibias, twelve zeros, a vortex, a circular saw-blade, a fire, a splash of water, an esophagus, a stomach, an American eagle's head with a Russian babushka wrapped around it, and an unmade...
...Yellow Tiles. Sofia, once the dreariest of East-bloc capitals, has already taken on a new vigor and vivacity. A burgeoning fleet of privately owned automobiles now dominates yellow-tiled Russki Boulevard, having driven into retirement the babushka-topped, overall-clad street cleaners who once were its only traffic. Red Coca-Cola trucks bustle about town, carting the bubbly produce from three local bottling plants. In such cafes as the Astoria and the Alenmak, where only two years ago the twist was a reform-school offense, big-beat music blares from well-stocked jukeboxes (current...
...combination hero's-brother-in-law-secret-policeman-movie-narrator, who, at the outset, is confronted with Rita Tushingham as an orphaned Russian peasant girl. Miss Tushingham has wisely made a habit of playing lasses of English extraction, but by the mere application of a little makeup and a babushka she become as Russian as Lithuania...
...hatters have added some crucial undercover work. To give the scarf a lift and banish the babushka look, milliners have concocted a hatlike frame of stiff net. Over the frame goes a kerchief, with the ends either knotted at the nape of the neck or softly folded in front. The result: the scarf hat, a runaway bestseller that can safely be placed on freshly set hair and is often well worth wearing for its own stylish sake...