Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California farmers ringed the San Diego convention center, where the state Republican Party was holding its annual meeting, waving placards that read FAIRNESS FOR FARMERS and SAVE THE IMPERIAL VALLEY. As more than 50 huge tractors churned around the building, farmers warned that the show was only a dress rehearsal for an even larger demonstration scheduled for Oct. 22 in Los Angeles -where President Carter will address a Democratic Party fund-raising dinner...
...paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again...
...decline of her rich cousin in Times Square can inspire only sniggers of contempt. Like an aging East Side beauty striving desperately to recapture her high-flown days on the deb circuit, the Grey Lady has transformed herself into a journalistic shoehorning maxi-bopper, forcing herself into modern dress and trying to persuade potential suitors that she really is the object of their dreams...
Condoning or excusing violence is more indicative of a declining morality than is a vanishing dress code...
...says, "You're a phony celebrity Roxie, a flash in the pan--in two weeks nobody'll know who you are kid.... That's Chicago." But after one of Velma's girls is convicted and receives her just desserts at the end of a rope, Roxie agrees to dress up like Susy Homebody and bring a bit of vaudeville to the jury...