Word: deco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fervently decorative and mannered style of representing the nude, which owed a great deal to Modigliani. A sculpture like Seated Girl, 1913-14, with its long geometrical curve running from toe through thigh and torso to the impossible declination of the neck, is a fascinating prediction of Art Deco: coarser variants of this woman subsequently infested the mantelpieces of the late 1920s...
Never before and probably never again will the legend Fitzgerald created for himself and for his era have more commercial allure. Nostalgia, we are told, is in. So is art deco. Alcohol is making a comeback on the college campus, according to the New York Times . And women's liberation, one of our honest national issues, can rightly claim Zelda as an early casualty to male chauvinist pigdom...
...counted at least six full-cast costume changes in No, No, Nanette, and there are about fifty members in the company. At one point, the men's chorus enters in art deco sweaters, knickers, and argyle socks; they carry banjos, and they sing "I Want to Be Happy." A "Tea for Two" number, set in Atlantic City, has the fifty garbed in the best and worst of flapper couture. At the finale you can hardly see the stage for the sequins...
Here were the narrow tan lockers, the light green and brown tile floors, the closely shaven mathematics teachers, the Art Deco furniture-all preserved through the years an unwitting museum of redolent nostalgia. The scaled-down desks, the dwarfed nation of students, the knee-high urinals-all attested to the passage of time. The clots of eighth-grade hoydens with their manila complexions and pink eraser thighs attested to my eternal puerility. Most of the boys, however, still on the verge of their powerful pubescence, still four feet eleven, flitted unsuspectingly down the corridors like little frightened birds...