Word: dress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centuries the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has remained as enigmatic and elusive to Western eyes as the legendary Abominable Snowman that ambles across its snowy slopes. Dotted with aerie temples and emerald valleys, ruled by a Dragon King whose subjects dress like Renaissance page boys, Bhutan relished the role of the world's last Shangri-La, and kept a closed door to foreigners. As a result it preserved a way of life indistinguishable from that of its countrymen a thousand years...
...Logan. The firm is the nation's largest dressmaker, with anticipated 1967 sales of $210 million. And Richard Schwartz, since succeeding his father in 1964 as chief executive officer, has emerged as the David Merrick of the business. The twelve divisions that make up his organization provide a dress for just about any figure, fiscal as well as physical...
Perhaps. But Russia's dictator did have his share of quirks. He hated to go out in public, he said, because crowds would gather and applaud "with mouth open, the fools." He pouted when he saw wives of Soviet officials in foreign dress. He complained, "I can't breathe in here," when he smelled perfume in a room. After his eldest son, Yasha, bungled a suicide attempt, Stalin shouted: "Missed, you great fool!" He slapped Svetlana twice across the face when, at 17, she fell in love with a middle-aged Jewish dramatist. His spies trailed her when...
Hyannis Port, she has a "fantastic" sense of color. Women's Wear Daily, too, sees her as a budding mini trend setter. Only a couple of weeks ago, Women's Wear carried a picture of Caroline wearing a tight-waisted dress at the christening of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, predicted that it might mean "the beginning of the end of the A line...
Body into Dress. Biographer Weintraub (T. E. Lawrence, William Golding) evokes the life and times of Beardsley in splendid fashion, but presumably feels that he lacks the competence to weigh the man's art. Beardsley's exquisitely wrought line drawings embraced a vision of some unearthly world-part pagan myth, part Oriental mystery. It was a world inhabited by satyrs and hermaphrodites, dwarfs and dandies, by women either ornamentally angular and boyish or monstrously fat and corrupt. Often they were nude or seminude, but their bodies seemed merely part of their fantastically elaborate dress. His illustrations for such...