Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John F. Kennedy had discovered no skeletons in the Eisenhower closet, no cataclysmic secret-intelligence reports. But he had discovered that even a well-informed, alert Senator and President-elect has no conception of the responsibilities of the U.S. presidency. Shortly after April 12. 1945. Harry Truman said that he felt as if a load of hay had fallen on him. Kennedy was showing something of the same load, but being Kennedy, he came out fighting. He had also discovered, like many a predecessor, that he was bound in his high ambitions by the same realities that had bound...
Probably the most sophisticated American coffeehouse is Hollywood's Renaissance, which puts out its own newsletter, holds art classes, has a closet full of chess sets, and has presented such theatrical products as Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Old Maid and the Thief and a revue based on the cartoon characters of Jules (Sick, Sick, Sick) Feiffer. Renaissance imitations have appeared all over Sunset Strip-the Unicorn, Pandora's Box, Chez Paulette, the Bit-but the closest approximation is Positano at Malibu Beach, where patrons sip $1 spumoni sodas, play Monopoly and pingpong, and take...
...three speeds but no reverse, and if a mistake is made, there you are. I frankly was surprised to find that your man had noticed the flacks at all. In the past few months I have had very little need for flackery and had put the flacks in a closet along with my stults, which I haven't used for years. Incidentally, I do have four stults...
...Shelley Berman's closet, a dozen $325 suits hang in a row, the right sleeve of each bent at the elbow, recalling a cocked arm holding a telephone. Short of a medieval armorer, no tailor could keep a jacket from taking on the prime characteristic of its owner, the comedian who has risen to fame by talking to imaginary people on imaginary telephones...
...spring look in style, if New York designers have their way, will be dominated by dresses that show lots of leg, arm and neck. That is what emerged from the closet at the semi-annual fashion showing of the New York Couture Group this week in Manhattan, where 51 leading designers showed off their spring styles to 250 fashion editors-and invited them to play the game of guessing which ones will catch on with U.S. women...