Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brightest & Boldest. Ebullient and supremely self-confident, the new young stylesetters couldn't care less about looking like ladies. They demand to look smashing in a theatrical, sexy and aggressively individual manner. No longer are clothes meant to fit like a soft, beautifully made glove; instead, they are free and unbinding. No longer do colors blend in a bouquet-like ensemble; it is much more fun to make them clash, vibrate, gleam and sparkle. And if designers don't give them what they crave, youth invent it for themselves...
...spring's fashions have been previewed in Manhattan for department-store buyers across the nation, the trend is clear. Clothes will be more wildly becoming than ever. Designers who are tuned in on the new wave length have produced a crop of dresses that are not only the brightest, boldest and happiest in memory but also the shortest and most revealing (see color pages...
...continued, "It was as if you had worked out the boldest simplest organizing of buildings in a rough clay model and then just made it big--losing none of the original strength and emphasis...
That spoof recently made a big splash on A Series of Birds, the boldest, brashest and most controversial new show on British TV. The star, director, writer and most of the cast are John Bird, 30, whose devastating mimicry of Wilson and other world leaders made him the terror of the telly a few years ago on That Was the Week That Was. But unlike TW3, which confined its satire to a string of short, disconnected vignettes, Bird's new show preys on a wide range of subjects in one continuous 25-minute sketch...
...with California-style fruits and vegetables that the boldest technological advances are likely to appear next. Scientists at the University of California at Davis have developed a lettuce picker with a sensing mechanism that "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ready for harvest. Similarly, an asparagus harvester is electronically activated only by stalks of the proper shape and size. For such products as apricots and olives, engineers are experimenting with shaking-and-catching devices already in use on prunes, peaches and apples; a mechanical arm clutches the tree and shakes it until the fruit drops into...