Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starters, the Talking Heads do not look like the average New Wave band. Not only are they not punks, they actually look more like slightly decayed preppies. They have short hair, dress neatly in button-down shirts and peer calmly from the back of their album, looking for all the world like young stock brokers on holiday. They let it be known that they are adults, not raving juvenile delinquents like their comrades...
Cardin included in his show a strapless black outfit with a satin belt, while Guy Laroche took off with a multicolor batwing evening dress. From Lanvin came a sheer-topped gown with delicate pastel embroidery, and from Courrèges, a skirt and blouse combination laden with ruffles. For most of high fashion's critics, clients, and trend watchers, the week's main feature was the Saint Laurent collection. Paris' No. 1 designer, who launched the costume revolution with his Russian, gypsy, Cossack fashions of 1976, had presaged a return to modernity with his ready-to-wear...
...There were eulogies by President Carter and Vice President Mondale. The service lasted more than two hours. Said Pastor Calvin Didier, a Humphrey friend: "The only service we ever had here that ran as long as this one was when Hubert was the preacher." Afterward Muriel, in a pink dress and fur jacket, stood in the cold greeting guests, including Coretta King, whom she embraced. While the honor guard lifted the casket and moved it to a waiting hearse, she wiped away some tears, then smiled and waved to friends in the crowd. At sundown Humphrey was buried in Minneapolis...
Partners are touching each other again, and dancing to music that is meant to have them do just that, such as the marvelously variable hustle. Extraordinarily, the oldfashioned, dress-up tea dance has returned from oblivion to become a popular mixer all over the country-a departure, to say the least, from the meat-market atmosphere of the singles bars. The disco scene has grown generally less barbarous, and is now in retreat from the narcissistic solo gyrations that became fashionable in the early '60s. The most phenomenal pop-song hit of the season? That saccharine hymn...
...taking on some subtlety and civility. Men are sending women flowers in greater numbers, the florists say, than at any time in the past decade and are regaining some of the manners that they felt superfluous when faced with militant wives or sweethearts. Women today are less apt to dress like sodbusters on a holiday, and frilly dresses, flouncy skirts, ruffled underskirts, lace, gauze blouses-all as feminine as possible-have returned to everyday fashion. Advertisements heralding coming spring fashions ooze lyricism, and sentimental trinkets and totems are booming. "Everyone is into hearts," says a Chicago shopkeeper, "the same...