Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence of Women's Lib on the grammar school level. A fifth-grader drew Gloria Steinem "because she made me feel proud that I am a woman." Another girl, three years younger, was even more certain of women's rightful status. Her choice? God, wearing a maxi dress...
...secretary likes her outfit so much that she wears it everywhere, even on dates. Employers generally are not put off by the high cost of keeping their staff well accoutured. They find that career clothes create a good professional image and eliminate the problem of poor taste in employee dress...
...commercial for Playtex Living Bras opens with the announcement: "And now-introducing a new way of living in comfort." It certainly is. Striding on to the home screen is a fully clothed model, smiling serenely-and wearing her bra over her dress. An ad for Maidenform uses boards painted with a series of life-size figures; the figures have bras-but no heads. A live model pops from figure to figure while making the sales appeal. Her pitch: "Maidenform's Rated X bra makes you look beautiful...
Uniform costuming of the chorus in white shirts and dark pants draws them together and recalls the dress of marching Young Pioneers. The four leaders' interchangeability in political and dramatic roles is embodied by their blue work clothes; black masks become their political disguises. Could there be an easier way to put on a role than simply putting on a cap, as the four leaders do to play Young Comrade...
...victim of scientific arrogance or, as he says shortly after the operation, "a fallen man," precursor of a generation that may have no memory of what it was to have been human? Crichton does not indulge in such speculation. He is a scrupulous genre writer who is content to dress up old tales with new gadgetry. Andromeda Strain, for example, was in some sense a rewrite of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. The Terminal Man is an update of Frankenstein. Can Dracula, or Wolfman in sheep's clothing, be far behind...