Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horror." Designer McCardell speaks with authority, for she started the casual American Look. Even among fashion editors, who genuflect to Paris before every deadline, she is considered unique. "Claire started the feeling for Americana," says Vogue's Babs Simpson. Agrees Diana Vreeland of Harper's Bazaar: "She gave the American woman a look of her own, and she did it without outside pressures...
...silk dress or whether it will be a sow's ear." Designer McCardell made a silk dress with a special wartime twist-a long kitchen-dinner dress of tie silk, with apron to match, for women who were forced to be their own maids. When Harper's Bazaar asked her to make something in which women could do their housework and still look smart, Claire obliged with the "Popover," a wraparound, coverall sort of dress in denim that sold for $6.95. Townley sold 75,000 of the first Popover model, and McCardell has had a variation...
...illegally-into the flames of her husband's funeral pyre last October (TIME, Nov. 1), Jodhpur has been on a religious binge. Self-styled holy men from miles around have swarmed into town to cash in on the popular fervor. Hawkers in the city's crowded bazaar are peddling ballads and poems extolling the virtues of suttee, the accepted name for the widow's sacrifice. In Jodhpur's homes, emotional wives worship before cheap lithographs showing a noble Sugan Kunwar, cradling the head of her dead husband in her lap as flames consume them both...
...streets, discredited old Mullah Kashani, a dormant demagogue seeking to regain his popularity, proclaimed a "day of mourning" and ordered his fanatics to don black arm bands in protest at the recognition of Britain. Only about 50 followers showed up next day in Teheran's bazaar, chanting "Down with Britain." At Teheran University, students rioted, and two were killed by troops...
Razing the Roof. He still had one item of unfinished business: revenge on the bazaar merchants, 80% of whom had cooperated with the strike. (The merchants dislike Premier Zahedi's government because many of them are no longer able to connive in profitable import deals.) In reprisal, the cops had painted identifying marks on the closed shops. When the merchants arrived to unshutter their shops on the next business day, waiting troops stopped them: "You wanted to close, now stay closed." Overhead, gangs of Dadsetan's men, armed with crowbars and picks, ripped up nearly 500 feet...