Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candlelight. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. -Robert Louis Stevenson...
...confused with homosexuals and transvestites. Classic transexuals are born with the anatomy of one sex but suffer from a total, lifelong identification with the other, perhaps influenced by prenatal hormone disturbances. Transexuals generally disdain association with professed homosexuals. Unlike transvestites, they do not dress in clothes of the opposite gender for erotic stimulation, but simply because they feel more comfortable that...
Hollywood Dress Designer Mr. Blackwell, who has made a name for himself more by criticizing than creating clothes, has announced his annual selection of the worst-dressed women of the year. The No. 1 spot for 1973 was captured by the self-avowed last of the truly tacky women, Pop Star Bette Midler, because "she looks like she took potluck in a Laundromat." Runners-up were such alleged exemplars of basse couture as Princess Anne, Raquel Welch, Tennis Champ Billie Jean King, Jacqueline Onassis (who has been given a lifetime spot on Blackwell's list), Elke Sommer, Sarah Miles...
Burly Crew. Despite the crush at the Guard, fights rarely erupt. A burly crew of five bouncers keeps order, ousting patrons who utter even the mildest of profanities. Hookers are immediately booted out. A strict dress code outlaws Levi's, tank tops and cutoffs. These rules apparently appeal to the clientele that seeks out the club: a conservatively dressed crowd of nurses and schoolteachers, pilots, salesmen and junior executives...
Lelia Taratus, 9, the daughter of an Atlanta orthodontist, wears jeans and plays football with the boys at recess three days a week. But she has also made a deal with her mother to wear a dress and play with the girls the other two days. Dr. Spock is reordering the pronouns in his classic book Baby and Child Care, but he has a few qualms about rearing sons and daughters with minimal sex distinctions: "No country I know of has tried to bring them up to think of themselves as similar. Such an attempt would be the most unprecedented...