Word: dress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...card games and political fisticuffs back home, and he returned occasionally to refresh his memory. In 1848, when the U.S. was at war with Mexico, he painted his War News from Mexico. From the shirt-sleeved fellow shouting out the story, to the little Negro girl in her everyday dress and the deaf old patriarch in his straight-backed chair, Woodville perfectly captured the sense of awe and thrill of pride surrounding the derring-do down South. Americans apparently thought so too-they bought 14,000 prints of the painting...
...perhaps twice what a single noncommercial customer would pay for one of the dozen or so other models of the same suit made by the designer. At Dior, Ohrbach's picked half a dozen choice-and expensive-items, including a loosely shaped $1,400 black velvet cocktail dress featuring a large black satin bow, with puffs of black lace as collar and cuffs. Last week both looked like sure winners among the 40 dresses, suits and coats that Ohrbach's brought back from Paris...
After a period of unusually low visibility, Johnson surfaced last week with a speech, an open letter to Congress, and his first full-dress, televised press conference since March. Despite all the words, he did little to give his leadership image a lift; during most of the press conference he was of solemn mien, his head canted downward...
...bartenders-turned-publicans learn how to mind their milds and bitters, the firm stands ready with a stable of 20 trained barmaids to "train local staffs in typical English fashion." According to Partner Shafran, they come in two styles-"the big-breasted, gin-breath barmaid in a tight black dress, and the pink-cheeked, lusty but innocent type...
...performers who dress up in Edwardian band costumes to comment on modern times? First of all, when you talk about the Beatles, you mostly mean John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who write nearly all the words and tunes, and producer George Martin, who writes the rest of what you hear on the record. Martin knows all the musical technique anyone will ever need: as a musicologist, he has at is command every classical trick in the book, as a record producer, he knows how to make piano strings sound like the winds of Hell. He can conjure up anything...