Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks younger and full of bubbly vitality, especially when he talks to a responsive crowd that cheers his every utterance. Though he sports double-knit suits and fashionably longer hair, Humphrey still suffers from being as out of style as the crew cut, the rumble seat or high-button shoes in a state where voters like their politicians to be with it. As one ranking Democrat in California cracked: "Hubert Humphrey is to politics what Lawrence Welk is to music...
Dangling threads, unpressed seams, bulging linings, drooping hems, pop-off buttons, crooked pockets, puckered zippers, flawed fabrics and mismarked sizes are common. Seamstresses are being deluged with requests from unwary purchasers to patch up the flaws. Customers, retailers and even manufacturers acknowledge that the dress mess is critical. "It is the biggest unsolved problem in retailing," says Cyril Magnin, chairman of San Francisco-based Joseph Magnin, adding, "I spend more time on the quality problem than anything else." Margaret Dadian, vice president for the Midwest's Kay Campbell's Shops, headquartered in Evanston, Ill., calls the problem...
...Angeles, and five weeks later PONCHO received four round-trip tickets on Hughes Airwest between Seattle and Las Vegas ($664), plus $300 worth of rooms and entertainment at Hughes' hotel, the Sands. Moral: Even if you don't think you'll get there, push the button anyway...
...about the richness of Kandinsky's stock of inner images. Of his way of seeing, he wrote that "everything 'dead' trembled Not only the stars, moon, woods, flowers of which the poets sing, but also a cigarette butt lying in the ashtray, a patient white trouser button looking up from a puddle in the street, a submissive bit of bark that an ant drags through the high grass in its strong jaws to uncertain but important destinations. Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard...
...annual meeting soon found out differently. Land had decided to use this meeting to stage the long-awaited debut of his new, pocket-sized camera. Unfolding a leather-covered box to form a vaguely triangular Polaroid camera. Land focused on his oversized meerschaum pipe and pushed the shutter button five times in quick succession. About a second after each touch, a 3-in. by 3-in. blank plastic square shot out. Slowly and almost magically, like invisible ink being activated, they turned into color prints...