Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their work as, respectively, the fire captain and the architect who combine their charisma to minimize loss of life when the world's tallest building goes up in flames. Faye Dunaway provides the film's highest moments of suspense by nearly falling out of the damnedest dress you ever saw on several occasions. But looked at from an accountant's point of view-the only sensible one for pictures of this sort these increments are minuscule considering the crowded disaster market...
Faisal shuns modern dress for the traditional long cotton lhawb that Arabs wear beneath an abayeh or robe. His meals are bland and include much .boiled rice because of a series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private life. For other Saudis, however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well...
...congressional ball. "I looked around the table and chuckled to myself. I thought, 'Well, it's the same old family dinner table, it's just in a different place.' Susan was there with a nightcap over her curlers, her date was there in his dress pants and suspenders, I had my robe and underpinnings on. It was just like home. I don't know what the staff must have thought...
When Mrs. Ford heard last week that William Conrad, "Cannon" of their favorite TV program, was touring the White House, she ordered, "Bring him up." The spur-of-the-moment invitation left her no time to dress, and so the First Lady was still in her robe as she received "Cannon" for coffee. Ex-Beatle George Harrison, invited for lunch by the Fords' son Jack, 22, says of the new atmosphere: "I feel good vibes about this White House." As he and Billy Preston toured the place, Billy sat down at the eagle-pedestaled piano in the East Room...
Nonetheless, both the Americans and Russians are stressing the flight's importance to detente. During Moscow's TV coverage of the Soyuz 16 mission, commentators repeatedly pointed out that the flight was a dress rehearsal for next year's meeting in space with the Americans. When Soviet officials were interviewed, they even displayed a small U.S. flag alongside a Soviet flag of the same size on their desks. U.S. space officials also emphasized the mission's importance. They are trying to entice the Russians into other joint space ventures-if only to keep alive the badly...