Word: brims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tuxedo suit with the short Spencer jacket dominated the collection. Shown with cuffed slacks or over a narrow skirt, the jacket was matched with sexy blouses, narrow-brim straw hats and a variety of ties. Once noted for the austere tailoring of his classic pantsuits, Saint Laurent has now softened his approach. His showstopper: a black satin tuxedo suit whose jacket was opened to expose a decorative strapless black lace...
...just that the bucket of dollars held abroad is full to the brim, and any additions cause it to overflow. So long as this trend prevails, no amount of central bank intervention can halt the monetary jitters that are shaking the system...
Liza is a tornado of energy, and that has a hypnotic appeal. It sweeps up nearly everyone with its seductive force. When she plays her forte, the waif, her wide dark eyes brim with vulnerability. In moments of stillness, her forlorn, diminutive figure makes a plea for love and assurance that only shattering applause can provide and confirm. And she gets...
...excels Le Carré in sense of place?particularly when the place is secret service headquarters. The sunless corridors, the peculiar amalgam of research, bureaucratic fatigue and hostility are brilliantly rendered. Power struggles become palpable: Smiley's conversations brim with silences and ambiguities; throwaway lines can hang a man, and one quiet meeting results in a British victory over some brash "cousins" in the CIA. Cruelty abounds, but so does guilt. Smiley believes implicitly in the need for clandestine agents, but he knows that his scholarly gains will soon be absorbed by his dreaded allies?the Americans...
...order for the chicken sandwiches that Hughes [always asked for when he] was going off on a plane. [Margulis] made up a packet, along with the mandatory bottle of Poland water, and helped Hughes descend from his hideout down the service elevator to the hotel garage. With his snap-brim hat and his leather jacket, the man who had broken the round-the-world flight record almost forty years earlier boarded an old Daimler limousine and went off to relive the joys of long-gone days...