Word: derry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mogul empire controlled the subcontinent from 1526 until the early 1700s. The confusion in attitudes persists; while most Indian women haughtily reject the ubiquitous miniskirt, the partygoing younger ones have adopted the "hipster sari." The bottom portion is tied low enough to expose a generous expanse of the upper derrière, while the top, or choli, has been reduced to startlingly provocative dimensions...
...Gaulle the foreign exchange wherewithal to attack sterling and the dollar. Ungraciously sacked by the general in 1966, Giscard used his own small party to follow a policy of "Yes, but"-a policy that Pompidou once characterized as "between two chairs, and I hope they fall on their derrière." Giscard landed on his feet, and now promises to proceed more subtly than before in restoring "economic and financial equilibrium" with a balanced budget, an end to exchange controls, and a fixed rate of economic expansion. Internationally, he advocates Common Market membership for Britain and a European "pool...
...million shot that burst his weapon and gashed his face. Yet another private stepped into the gaping steel jaws of a Viet Cong mantrap, and when a fourth marine rushed to his aid, the rescuer stumbled onto a sharpened bamboo stake-injuring his leatherneck pride more than his derri...
They certainly belong together. Choreographer Merce Cunningham believes that all movement is dance. Composer John Cage insists that all sound is music. Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg thinks "every object is as good as every other object." But could they belong to derrière-garde London? After presenting 15 ballets in six performances at Sadler's Wells, the triarchy established itself as the most explosive event in British ballet since Martha Graham's London debut in 1954. At week's end the company had proved such a surprise smash that it transferred to another theater...
...Cornish, N.H., home, where he has lived for more than 50 years, Parrish is plainly baffled; he thinks of himself as derrière-garde. "How can these avant-garde people get any fun out of my work?" he asks. "I'm hopelessly commonplace." He couldn't have picked a more fashionable word...