Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testified at many state legislative hearings, and I have never yet appeared in a long formal dress...
...debate the ERA on the level of what it will or won't do without the personal attacks, the epithets, and the "phantom issues"? The kind of dress the ERA opponents wear is a total irrelevancy to the issue of whether or not we should change the U.S. Constitution to treat women exactly like...
Those two rakish characters with derbies and cane are not refugees from a ragtime show but Jimmy Carter's good ole boys Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell. When Rolling Stone Reporter Joe Klein suggested that Ham and Jody dress up like Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for a May 19 article on "The White House Whiz Kids," the pair figured, why not? Photographer Annie Leibovitz picked up some odds and ends from a costume shop and the final ensemble wound up looking more like a cross between Butch Cassidy and The Sting...
...garment in question was a corselette, which earlier generations of women wore for "support"-under a dress. Now, along with the camisole, which used to be the slip's better half, the corselette has gone public and come out on top. Even in staid Boston, Saint Laurent's revealing, sleeveless corselettes have been selling like $140 hotcakes at his Saks Fifth Avenue and Bonwit Teller outlets. Camisoles are just as popular. Says a buyer at Chicago's Marshall Field: "We are selling all we have." In Los Angeles, Designer Lore Caulfield says that demand for her slinky...
...skills or truly utilize coincidence; it is the author. Morante continually makes old tricks fresh-not as a paring down of life's complexity but as short cuts into the absurdities of conflict and the urgencies of peace. The effects are cumulative. Details are meticulously piled up: the dress and appearance of all the players in a casual card game, the entire contents of a small room that Ida rents. This tangible solidity is threatened by the destructive mania that is called history. Morante prefaces her chapters (each of which deals with the occurrences of a single year) with...