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...while the German opened his mouth to say he was tired. We got our checks and went up to the cash register, the cashier took the check, totaled it up, and gave us our change without once looking at us. It felt good to get out into the crisp night...
...anti-personnel weapons. The men in Washington who planned this war knew that the National Liberation Front and North Vietnam had only limited medical facilities and that widespread injuries, instead of deaths, would severely tax those facilities and weaken the Vietnamese war effort. So they issued crisp orders which set in motion the farm wives and the bomber pilots. And more small boys clutched shredded bodies and blinded eyes and screamed in agony...
...With a crisp manner and hearty handshake, the ambitious businesswoman often courts success by acting like a man. As one has explained, when she was in her mid-20s and determined to get ahead at the office, she took her femininity and "stored it away for future consideration." Up to a point, perhaps to middle-management levels, this tactic may prove effective. But to reach the highest levels of business, a woman must clearly and comfortably accept the fact that she is a woman, according to two alumnae of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration: Margaret Hennig...
Gone from most salons was the sculptured, hard-edge look pioneered by Courreges, Cardin and Gernreich. No more tight minis. No plastic helmets or vinyl unisex jumpsuits. Instead, the emphasis is once again on the most basic of feminine garments: the dress. Liberated from the crisp, form-fitted lines of recent seasons, it now billows, ripples and flows. "I don't care if the biggest-selling thing in stores is pants," said Designer Oscar de la Renta, whose own new collection opened last week in New York. "The dress...
...bulk of the book all consist of written answers to written questions. Suspicious of alterations in phrase or context, he refuses to give interviews "off the Nabocuff." He rejects the illusions of "bogus informality" and "colorful details." He has made sure that his words are bright and fresh, as crisp and carefully re-written, in the interviews, letters to the editor, and critical pieces assembled in Strong Opinions, as they always are in his novels...