Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...37th show of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion, Scott had sent 14 models swirling down the runway wearing flower-printed jersey in every shade of pink imaginable, from begonia, bougainvillea and poinsettia to lobster, raspberry, strawberry and watermelon. The designer called the look "hippie gypsy," and it included tiny bra tops covered by bolero jackets, Hungarian tunic blouses combined with tights or flowing midiskirts and curly hairdos bound up with kerchiefs. Jewels glinted from every ear, finger, neck, wrist, waist and ankle. Scott's version of this year's costume look was the hit of the show...
...death row, the court ruled 4 to 3 last week that capital punishment is constitutional. Vainly the three dissenters argued that the death penalty should be struck down because California law offers no guidelines to help juries decide whether a convicted man should go to prison or the gas chamber. "If a civilized society cannot say why one man should be executed and another not," replied the dissenting opinion written by Justice Mathew Tobriner, "it does not rationally, logically take life. Instead, it grossly denies due process of law, inflicting death on the basis of a trial that is capricious...
WALTER GRAEBNER London Sir: Ho-hum. Still another derogatory reference to Oshkosh. No, we do not have "the electric excitement of New York," but we do have schools in full operation, firemen and policemen doing their duties, plus regular garbage collection. Interested New Yorkers may contact our Chamber of Commerce...
...Schutz. The two male soloists sang adequately, Robert Gartside's illustrative facial antics notwithstanding. I wished for vastly superior pronunciation from everyone concerned. The highlight of the Mozart was the translucent Laudate Pueri in which the choral balances were exact in well-intoned and excellently phrased singing. The chamber orchestra played quite vigorously even if the conductor, Iva Dee Hiatt, displaying no left-hand technique, threw them to their own devices with her embarrassing Signal Corps gestures...
Ranchman nevertheless pays the extreme penalty-extremely. He dies in the electric chair, in the gas chamber and by gunshot while being hanged. Each time, he is casually resurrected to go on talking, shouting and heckling with the rest of the cast, in the course of which none of them utters anything trenchant, or moving, or witty...