Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less daring than in years past, last week's collections seemed decidedly more wearable. Dior's Bohan bolstered his stock of gowns with evening pantsuits in sensuous fabrics. Scherrer leaned toward a Chaplinesque look in suits, and even outfitted his models with bowler hats and canes...
...artist, half magician, half charlatan, paints with paperback Freud insights and melodramatic compositions so calculating that he sometimes makes Norman Rockwell appear primitive. Yet in the midst of a darkened landscape, Magritte can mysteriously illuminate the sky: on an ominous day he makes it rain identical men in bowler hats, as impassive and relentless as Kafka's bureaucrats. In such works the conjurer celebrates and mourns the human condition and shows why, despite his shortcomings and the shiftings of fashion, he remains a perennial favorite of connoisseurs as well as crowds...
...Nine short-order buffets, three coffee shops, open 24 hr. One restaurant, being rebuilt. Ten bars, three open 24 hr. Supermarket-like duty-free shops selling wide range of goods. Refinements include animal hostel, dramatic society that rehearses and performs in the airport's underground chapel, a legendary bowler-hatted ghost who supposedly turns up in emergencies. Minihospital. European Terminal 2 is receiving $20 million facelift. Overall: friendly, frumpish...
Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, with his wisp of mustache, starched collar, bowler hat and understated manner, often looks like a Downstairs character asking a small favor of the man Upstairs. And indeed, until recently, the Irish were among the profligates of Europe, living it up as if someone else were responsible for their bills. Wages wildly outstripped productivity. Unemployment was the highest in Western Europe; inflation raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling...
Fair enough, we decide. Ripping off the rich is not necessarily a spiritual job. But why does Malle linger so long over the process, over the awkward thumps and collapsing objects? Belmondo appears in a marvelous Magritte poster-like costume--mustache, bowler hat and all--and we feel primed for a rakish romp. So why the dragging start? Perhaps the ensuing flashbacks into this life of crime will lend a clue...