Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article on Fashion Designer Giorgio Armani [April 5] was an exhilarating and refreshing story. He has done wonders with a bolt of fabric, and has an extremely well-groomed approach toward dressing a woman. If you've never experienced the feeling of wearing an Armani, you've never experienced comfort or freedom in clothes. I'm proud to flaunt his wings on the back of my jeans...
...PEOPLE LOSE their heads when forced to compromise their values. But Sir Thomas More refused to compromise his values and lost his head, literally. More, the 16th century philosopher, scholar and ardent catholic, not only sparks the deadly anger of a king-but also inspires the hero of Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons, currently playing at Mather House...
...figures to play Bill Russell to Sampson's Wilt Chamberlain in pro seasons ahead. But for the present, Ewing has been a focus of cynicism. Records have been broken this year for cruelty in the stands, and the normal expression on Ewing's face has been a bolt of anger. When...
Beginning usually with a sketch and a bolt of fabric, Armani will work out each of the 500 pieces he designs for his collections, most of which he will offer to buyers in a choice of three colors or fabric combinations. Occasionally, he will wrangle with Galeotti over the practicality of a design ("He will insist I've gone too far, that something is just not salable"), and often he sounds out staff members, whom he calls "my family." But all the designs, even his commissioned uniforms for the Italian Air Force, are Armani's. Unlike some...
...would such a war start? Most experts now dismiss the once fashionable "bolt-out-of-the-blue" scenario. William Hyland, a longtime strategic specialist for the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations and now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, fears that World War III might begin not as World War II did, with a Nazi blitzkrieg in the West and a Japanese sneak attack in the East, but as World War I did, with a combination of bumbling, inadvertence, events getting out of control and just plain bad luck. Says he: "If there is ever...