Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perks previously denied ) Worse, he was denied entrance to "the club," an elite group that really runs CBS. Following an unwritten edict from Chairman William Paley, CBS has always been fiercely proud of its image. How an executive looks is often as important as what he does. He must dress right, talk right and live at the right address. He must, in sum, always look as if he had just stepped out of Brooks Brothers and was on his way to have lunch with his former classmates at the Yale Club...
...Carter Country, a rural police station in the Deep South comes up looking like a country-fried version of Barney Miller stuffed with crackers. ("Would you press my dress uniform?" one redneck cop asks a policewoman. "I don't do sheets," she answers.) In its other entries, ABC takes to the sea: The San Pedro Beach Bums are five California boys on a rundown boat; Operation Petticoat, based on the old Gary Grant flick, unites a crew of sailors on a pink submarine and a contingent of bosomy nurses-war is swell, apparently. And in The Love Boat, Gavin...
...never played before, so I'm just learning. But I really enjoy it. It's a time to be with Jimmy." After tennis one blistering day ("You get so hot you're wet all over"), Rosalynn cast off inhibition and jumped into the swimming pool, tennis dress and all. "It felt so good we've done it several times." But a lifetime of putting work above pleasure nudges her into a rationale for tennis: "I really need the exercise. And when you live where you work, it's easy to work all the time...
Punk rock is nothing new. Punkism was a disease I suffered from myself. It's a pose that should not be taken seriously, nothing more than addlebrained adolescents playing naughty dress-up, bored children looking for attention...
...Massachusetts commission against discrimination. Unfortunately, the issue she presented was left muddled: the airline compromised, permitting her to wear her voodoo jewelry with half sho"wing and the other half concealed. Questions: Is there not some limit to an individual's right to insist on private taste in dress while working for an employer doing business with the public? Where was fair play most faulted in the case of a New York City woman who charged discrimination against a restaurant that fired her after she refused (in obedience to her Pentecostal church's dictates) to wear the required...