Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perkins, Joan Fontaine, Charlotte Ford Niarchos, Tallulah Bankhead, Gore Vidal and Joan Bennett, all of them crushed into a Manhattan nightclub no larger than an orgone box. Best job of capturing the jaded eye was turned in by Angela Lansbury, 42, Broadway's ever-eccentric Mame, who was clad in an all but invisible microskirt. Angela's big news was that she had just turned down a movie role as a lesbian. "Corny as it sounds," said she, flashing a stretch of thigh, "I don't want to destroy the image I've created as Mame...
...July 19 last summer, a small notice appeared in the Havana press, saying, "The Habana Libre will be closed to the public until further notice." Militia women, clad in green pants, blue shirts, and some in high heels and earrings, appeared, guns in hand, guarding the underground parking lot. At other entrances there were infantrymen lounging through the heat in their green fatigues...
Look at FORTUNE--a publication with its greatest appeal to businessmen. The September 15, 1967, issue has over 130 display advertisements in its 220 pages. Less than half a dozen picture a female. The few that do, show their models fully clad, and necessary to the advertisements. (One is a recording star, another the designer of a chair featured in the advertisement.) Apparently the tastes of FORTUNE readers--mainly businessmen--do not dictate the use of sex symbolism...
...building where Luther worked and taught, to the stately Castle Church. There, East German Bishop Johannes Janicke of East Germany's Evangelical Church preached a sermon based on the beatitudes that had a distinctly contemporary relevance. Today, he said, "the cry of the masses for righteousness has been clad in atheistic ideology." Nonetheless, "the beatitudes place the poor, the mourning, the meek and the hungry under the promise of God's government. God has a plan for this world...
...Angeles County Museum of Art; he also endowed the Ahmanson Center for Biological Research at the University of Southern California. Last month he announced plans for a 40-story office block on Wilshire Boulevard designed by Manhattan Architect Edward Durell Stone. With two marble-clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about his "edifice complex," Ahmanson is widely admired among S. & L. men. "We may be jealous, but we can't be critical," says President Edward L. Johnson of rival Financial Federation...