Word: closets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some people say it looks like porcelain and feels like the skin you love to touch. Others think it looks more like something peeled off the kitchen table. It makes raincoats seem wet before they are out of the closet and slacks look as though their wearer had just stepped out of a rocket ship. It is the latest gift from the U.S. to the haute couture. It's vinyl...
...English words. Sexy is in conversational use in Italy but implies heights of nubility far beyond the English meaning. A box is a garage for such fast sports cars as spyders, which is a corruption of speeder. A pullman is a long-distance bus; water is short for water closet. Some phrases have been adopted intact, such as strip tease, baby doll, Latin lover and jet set. Topless, fortunately, brings the same vision to Italian men as to Americans...
...clerk to the ladies' room and ecstatically dies of a surfeit. The clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin, who wants him for herself. But he cannot face the supreme sacrifice she demands and winds up in a catatonic state in her broom closet. By profession, Author Chopping is a commercial artist-he designed the dust jackets for Ian Fleming's James Bond books. His eye is microscopically keen. Unhappily, it is riveted on the Excremental Vision...
...seclusion for decades has to be torn down to make way for a bridge. "Dollin' Cousin" Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) arrives to help Dr. Drew (Joseph Gotten) handle the crisis and learns firsthand that the good old days are far from over. That night, in Miriam's closet, a dress is slashed to ribbons. Soon a head rolls out of a box, a hand starts picking out tunes in the music room, and heaven only knows where a body will turn...
...small room or closet has been designated in each of the nine dormitories around the Radcliffe quadrangle, she said. They will be used to store students' radios, record players, and other valuables. The rooms are expected to be ready for use by spring vacation...