Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years exalting the spirit. More immediate was the puritanical impact of the Moslems, whose Mogul empire controlled the subcontinent from 1526 until the early 1700s. The confusion in attitudes persists; while most Indian women haughtily reject the ubiquitous miniskirt, the partygoing younger ones have adopted the "hipster sari." The bottom portion is tied low enough to expose a generous expanse of the upper derrière, while the top, or choli, has been reduced to startlingly provocative dimensions...
Sweet Fruit. For the ceremony, Jackie and Arlo placed crowns (plastic) of stephanotis and ivy leaves in their hair, and were attired in fairyland white-the bride in a shimmering velvet gown and train with lace trim, the bridegroom in a puffed-sleeve shirt and bell-bottom trousers. While the dogs barked a processional, Folk Singer Judy Collins sang Leonard Cohen's Suzanne ("She's touched your perfect body with her mind"). Arlo's mother read a poem that Woody, who died in 1967, had written years ago for his son's wedding: "May your gladness...
...sodomy on the B.M.T. at rush hour." But it is another vexing American institution, the State Department-which he considers short on policy, long on platitude-that Galbraith finds hardest to forgive. "Mindless," "petty," "pompous" and "late" are only a few of the acid adjectives he applies to Foggy Bottom, and for the most part he bluntly takes Dean Rusk to be its accurate personification...
...young girl gave the old man a poster to put in his window. She printed at the bottom of the sign: closed from...
...there is no room at the top for all the Joe Lamptons and Jimmy Porters, those angry young men from the working class, a black man in Britain can't even get his foot on the bottom rung of the ladder. Two Gentlemen Sharing presents a tidy essay on John Bull and Jim Crow by telling the somewhat unlikely tale of a West Indian who desperately wants entry into the Establishment and a young ad man who is struggling...