Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innovations were basic to the wardrobes of generations of women: jersey suits and dresses, the draped turban, the chemise, pleated skirts, the jumper, turtleneck sweaters, the cardigan suit, the blazer, the little black dress, the sling pump, strapless dresses, the trench coat. Sometimes, the determining factor was practicality: Chanel wore bell-bottom trousers in Venice, the better to climb in and out of gondolas, and started the pants revolution. Sometimes, it was purely accidental: after singeing her hair, she cut it off completely, made an appearance at the Paris Opera, and started the craze for bobbed hair. But always...
According to a Government source, it was Dr. Hanns Swarzenski, the Boston Museum's curator of decorative art and sculpture, who allegedly spirited the little (8½ in. by 10½ in.) panel through customs at Logan Airport, probably in his briefcase or under his coat. Meanwhile, the Italian government -piqued at the loss of a documented national treasure-began an investigation. It concluded that the Raphael came to the U.S., directly or indirectly, through an Italian art dealer, Ildebrando Bossi, who died a month ago. Italy's leading art investigator, Rodolfo Siviero, asserts that Bossi bought...
...struggles to please her self-centered husband Jonathan, to bring up her children, to run her party. Her surroundings conspire against her. The caterers move in and take over her party; the neighbors complain to her about the coat rack that her husband has left in the hall of their Central Park West apartment; Jonathan derides her in front of the children; and when she cooks a special stuffing for the Thanksgiving turkey (as Jonathan has demanded), one of the girls spits it out. Jonathan explodes...
...already bobbled one bit of analysis when it claimed that some hair on MacDonald's coat was his wife's; it turned out to have come from his horse. The new samples taken from MacDonald were to be compared with bits of hair found under his wife's fingernails, but when pressed for a finding during the preliminary hearing, Chief Investigator Franz Grebner said that he had lost the reports. When finally presented to the court, the information revealed that the blonde strands under Colette MacDonald's fingernails did not match the hair of any other...
...pull one's coat to. To teach. A novice pimp learning from a master expresses his gratitude by saying, "Thanks for pulling my coat to it, brother...