Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that other bedazzled Harvard news organ, the Independent (Feb. 8-14). I find this film effusive, school-girlish, bathetic, and jejune. How can we be taken in by a mocking, if unwitting, hoax about madness, how can we think that schizophrenics act like simple, charming enthusiasts at a fancy dress ball? And its humor is saccharine; its thought, meretricious...
...Levine, president of Manhattan-based Capitol Dress Co., foresees a day perhaps ten years off when the industry will vanish from New York altogether. He may be too pessimistic, but Saul Nimowitz, director of New York City's Office of Apparel Industry Planning and Development, asserts: 'The middle-sized Manhattan dressmaker has been the backbone of the city's $7 billion garment industry, and he is the one who cannot survive today. The big conglomerates have enough money to move out of town, and the one-sewing-machine people can operate in a closet. In between, forget...
...Harvard, but we rejected its traditional symbols. There were no longer any institutionalized times or places for girls to be girls or boys to be boys. Many men hightailed back into final clubs or athletics, but Radcliffe surfaced ubiquitous, from House crew to Lampoon. And Harvard started to dress differently--women foreswore the affects, the glamor girl niceties for blue jeans and shags like...
...crow on his hat. But castaneda means chestnut grove, and the man looks a bit like a chestnut: a stocky, affable Latin American, 5 ft. 5 in., 150 Ibs. and apparently bursting with vitamins. The dark curly hair is clipped short, and the eyes glisten with moist alertness. In dress, Castaneda is conservative to the point of anonymity, decking himself either in dark business suits or in Lee Trevino-type sports shirts. His plumage is words, which pour from him in a ceaseless, self-mocking and mesmeric flow. "Oh, I am a bull-shitter!" he cackles, spreading his stubby, calloused...
Jack undergoes a complex metamorphosis. He adopts the appearances of normality, a hair cut and the most elegant Victorian dress. (We're in the 1950s, so if this seems a little odd, we can chalk it up to that tolerated margin.) Actually, Jack has come to believe that the year is 1888, the year of Jack the Ripper--the year of Jack Guerney, whose trick is to study given circumstance and manipulate it to fit with the new delusion...