Word: curtaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider the following items, all displayed in the Paris couture shows: Louis XIV theater-curtain trimmings decorating a hooped mini; velvet bustles and derriere butterfly bows; tutus; white taffeta capes; page boy, cowgirl and matador outfits; satin tunics; bubble coats; cancan skirts up at the front and down at the back; and, even more of a burlesque, satin minis designed to reveal black garters...
...week's end Judge Earl F. Riley rang down the curtain on that possibility, ruling that the prenuptial agreement was valid: Collins won her point. (Riley will take up the issue of temporary support in August.) "I'm very sorry it had to end like this," said Collins. "I'm very happy justice has been done." What would she expect in another relationship? she was asked. "Freedom, thank you very much," she replied. "Complete freedom from all entanglements...
...like Dad was still here, and I was reliving his days in court." Back in 1951, when she was a chubby third- grader in an all-black school, her father, Oliver Brown, was the name plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, the epochal case that rang down the curtain on legally segregated schools in the U.S. Thirty-five years later, the 43-year-old grandmother was about to take the witness stand as an intervening plaintiff in the very same case, charging that the public schools of Topeka had still not purged themselves of segregation despite the Supreme Court...
...County, Calif., epitomizes a community that harks back to old-style bigotry. Not only do the majority of residents practice discrimination against blacks, Jews, homosexuals and Hispanics, they believe in it. Unlike most California cities, Orange County is in a time warp. Its residents are living behind the Orange Curtain...
...portraits of American heroes as well. He said he wanted "to bring into one view a world in miniature," and that was the gesture he painted himself making in 1822 at the entrance to the main hall of his museum: an aging man twitching aside the veil, raising the curtain on the world's collected knowledge. He was the first in a long and recognizably American line of pushy sages and didactic popularizers, which would run forward to people like Will and Ariel Durant and Mortimer Adler...