Word: crepes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interior was spacious but its decor was neutral. Chiang Ch'ing was wearing a superbly tailored shirtwaist dress of heavy crepe de chine, with a full pleated skirt falling to midcalf, a style evocative of our early 1950s...
Manhattanites in plaid flannel shirts and crepe-soled leather boots are hiking down Fifth Avenue. Students in goose-down vests and baggy sweatpants are trekking through Harvard Square. Dudes in lumber jackets are hanging out in Beverly Hills. Few of these folks have a clue how to swing a fly rod or an ax. But they do know that outdoor gear designed for the backwoods has come in from the cold for wear everywhere...
...Queen was a state dinner in the White House Rose Garden, bordered with Queen Elizabeth roses. Under a gleaming white canopy and with TV cameras recording the event (see SHOW BUSINESS & TV), 224 guests gathered in a dazzle of diamonds and a cloud of pastel-tinted chiffon and crepe. Among them were Lady Bird Johnson, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Telly Savalas (star of Kojak, the Queen's favorite TV program), Olympic Skater Dorothy Hamill and White House Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan, who escorted TV's Barbara Walters...
Aids of the Washington Senator decided early yesterday evening to switch locations, setting off a flurry of activity as staff members transfered sound equipment, a New Orleans jazz band, and a red and white crepe-covered flat bed truck to the street outside the hotel...
Most of the actresses are still downstairs, picking up crepe paper streamers, popping balloons, packing away costumes, and removing make-up. It takes them twice as long to change as it did during the run. No audience is waiting anymore. They are out in time to help sweep up the popped balloons and squashed fruit. By 11:50, American in Purgatory is packed away. Before the cast has even left Agassiz, the Godspell crew begins to screw in lights...