Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashions, fielded his corps of boy and girl "cosmonauts" in jumpers and welders' helmets for the third season, as if to insist that they will really make it to the moon. His newest touch was wide, wide vinyl "space belts," which gird the torso from belly button to bosom bottom, zip up the back...
...Peking). They identify themselves with greetings in Mandarin: to "How are you?" one might answer Ma Ma Hu Hu, which means "horse, horse, tiger, tiger," or "pretty lousy." Though they can rarely come up with the tidy conclusions of their Kremlinological colleagues, they doubtless deserve the white button one of them was wearing last week: its four Chinese characters said simply: "We try harder...
Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?") I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
Prospect St. at night is magic. Fifteen Victorian mansions line the street, glowing gold from their windows. Princeton men in v-neck sweaters and blue button-down shirts walk down the sidewalk in groups of three or four. A few groups peel off at each building: Colonial, with its high pillars; Cap and Gown, with its Tudor facade; Ivy; Tower Cottage. It feels like someone should be humming "Going Back to Nassau Hall" in the background...
...worries that she "does not have the dedication and passion" for a show-biz career, and Roger Vadim complains of her "unlimited nonchalance." In Manhattan last week, Françoise was dragging through a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promotion campaign for Grand Prix. On her turtleneck sweater was pinned a button that said APATHY...