Word: dress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chen's version of Mao's "thinking" early last week by posting along Peking's major streets a "Declaration of War on the Old World." The Guards' vow: "To mercilessly destroy every hotbed of revisionism." Down the streets they rampaged, roughing up Chinese in foreign dress, ordering shopkeepers to stop selling books except those that reflect Mao's thinking and to rid themselves of imported articles or luxury items. In the place of cosmetics, ordinary floor-scrubbing soap was put on sale for facial care. Also on the taboo list: goldfish, exotic birds, flowers, antiques...
...told 65,000 people in Buffalo's Niagara Square on his first stop, "before the leaves begin to turn brown, we'll be in many more, looking and listening, and even talking from time to time." Even talking? Johnson did little else, delivering eight full-dress speeches defending his record, exhorting Americans to support him in Viet Nam, promising ever greater rewards from the Great Society...
...tourists. Rosemarie Barth, a West Berlin secretary, looked up acquaintances in Denver and reported that at once their friends "called me by my first name, which I liked very much." Language is always a barrier, but a Brazilian doctor says that his wife managed to spend $200 in a dress shop "on a total vocabulary of 'pink,' 'blue,' 'white,' 'my size' and 'how much.' " Other U.S. pluses, by consensus: ice cream, San Francisco, corn on the cob, roadside picnic spots, "houses that look like the ones in the movies...
...formal occasions she wears hatty hats, motherly dressmaker suits, and for a handbag-a majestic holdall." The pussycats of London's fashion press were helping Britain's Princess Anne celebrate her 16th birthday with some swipes at her clothes. "All those conventions of British royal dress have been decanted on her," complained the London Sunday Express's writer, though conceding that Anne does have "the young idea when she's off duty." Well, did that mean miniskirts? Not at all. In Jamaica with Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, she made the scene in a pair...
...Ever been to Corsica? The sun beats on you like a hammer . . . delicious, frightening." Her ultimate surrender proceeds, posture by posture, through moments of squeamish abandon on a dance floor to a New Year's eve when she sweeps downstairs in a feathery ball dress to find the narrow-hipped ne'er-do-well listening to Vivaldi. Somehow, he senses that she has never felt like a real woman...