Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Point is not to pamper its women cadets, some special measures are being taken. Uniforms designed by Hart Schaffner & Marx will be essentially the same as those worn by men but cut somewhat differently, with a modified, narrower hat and an optional accompanying skirt (except for parade dress, when men and women alike must wear trousers and the regulation tall "tarbucket" hat). Hair must be cut short. Makeup? Yes, but in "good taste." Jewelry? A wristwatch and one ring. No earrings, no bobby pins, no hair ribbons. The women will room together in pairs-but in barracks alongside...
...ignored. Thomas is your basic, crusty old family doctor, and, to be sure, he cannot resist the occasional opportunity to show that he is more than a mere comic. Yet the show's structure is sound. Danny's son is a Park Avenue practitioner whose sharp dress, smooth manner and cleverness about tax shelters drives the old boy to outrage. The gag writing, at least in the opening episode, is plentiful and sharp-up to Mary Tyler Moore standards...
Unable to penetrate her mystery, (So easy to look at/So hard to define) he can only, in true poet's fashion, give her names--"sweet virgin angel, sweet love of my life...scorpio sphinx in a calico dress...glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow"--and finally, simply, ask of her, "Don't ever leave me/Don't ever...
...many friends predicted I would stay perhaps a year or two and then would flee rather than be devoured by the hostile beast lurking inside every large corporation which, according to the folklore then current, would pounce upon anyone showing the least inclination toward independent thought, word, deed or dress. That folklore, chronicled in books like "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," "The Organization Man," and "Life in the Crystal Palace," was, I think, absurdly overdrawn. In any event, I did not encounter the beast...
...woman who craves notable nails must have patience as well as money. Top manicurists charge up to $65 for a full art deco hand. The painting and varnishing take up to two hours, and the nails need another hour to dry. Why do they bother to dress up their nails? Explains Paula Johnson: "Most women need something like this as an ego booster. They need people to say, 'How beautiful!' or 'How strange!' " A more practical explanation is advanced by Faye Cummings, a Los Angeles accountant and grandmother who is one of Johnson's regulars...