Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stages the usual Bacchic brawl that looks like the crowd scene from the Palermo production of La Bohème. After the Germans recapture the village, he contrives to involve the captain, giggling and wriggling under ribbons and rouge, in some transvestite titillations that are altogether too sweaty for comfort. And in the last reel he runs through one of those big silly battle sequences in which six Yanks take on 600 Germans, slice them up like liverwurst, recapture the village without a casualty. Daddy, in a word, found war hellarious...
...relax. Never have clothes been more stylish, well-made and-more to the point-wearable. As always, they are suited to the American woman's casual, active way of life, which has made comfort, simplicity and an effortless fit the hallmark of U.S. clothing everywhere. More important, as the American woman's tastes and interests have become increasingly varied and sophisticated, the $15 billion-a-year U.S. industry has learned how to create a distinctively "American look" not only for sportswear and daytime outfits-long American specialties -but in formal ball gowns and cocktail dresses as well...
...find something sparkling and appropriate for an embassy reception or dinner at the Colony-done in the elegant American style. Counsels Vogue's Diana Vreeland: "The days of fashion dictatorship are dead as mutton. Each of us has the opportunity for everything -to dress with individuality, suitability, gaiety, comfort, chic. You have only to take the opportunity-to use the New York collections for all they are worth...
...nearest neighbor on the tree of life, but neither has found the neighborhood entirely respectable. For man, that hairy presence stands just too close for comfort; outside the chimp cage at the zoo, the human observer begins to wonder uneasily who is amusing whom. In this illustrated primer of primate lore by Desmond Morris, curator of mammals at the London Zoo, and his wife Ramona, the sympathy of the authors is placed solidly behind the bars...
...vast majority of Los Angeles' citizens, of course, do not live on any such grand scale, but most of them still have easy access to what Los Angeles offers: natural beauty, climate, the comfort and pleasant living of a city filled with color, palms and tropical breezes. Hurdling space in its voracious lust for land, defying time in its blinding bursts of change, Los Angeles nonetheless maintains an easy, vacation-like atmosphere that is foreign to the East. When Lincoln Steffens, a native Californian, visited the Soviet Union in 1917, he exclaimed: "I have seen the future...