Word: dress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feminine white blouses with deep square necks and blue piping, and berets with fluffy red pompoms. They looked lost. Next were the petty officers, slightly less visible in summer whites but still dead ringers for Parisian pharmacists. Finally and thrillingly came the Captain and his senior officers in full dress uniforms complete with immaculate stiff shirts and white ties, striding down the middle of the street with beautiful women on their arms. They might have been reclaiming the French Quarter. Later that week we heard the Captain being interviewed on a French language radio station. He sounded sutably Gallic...
...light and airy enough. The costumes, also by Georgiadis and supervised by Anna Watkins, are breathtaking, not only sumptuous but redolent of a royal fantasy. The stage is filled with personages who could stroll the mirrored corridors of a palace. The Queen, for instance, wears a lyrical ivory silk dress, inspired by a Van Dyck portrait of Charles I's French wife, to her child's 16th birthday party; when she wakes from a magic spell a century later, she is in an 18th century pannier court costume to preside at the wedding...
...Miss Manners than the halls of Montezuma: training to be diplomatic guards at a mock-up of an embassy called Marshall Hall. Social etiquette is the topic as a gunnery sergeant combines a lecture with a slide show. A photograph of a diplomatic reception is projected. "What kind of dress do we say they're wearing there?" asks the sergeant. "That's right. That's black tie." Laughter greets the next slide, showing a Marine presenting flowers to a young woman in a low-cut gown. "Yeah, sometimes Marines get assigned to some real good duty," the sergeant concedes...
...building's most sensitive communications and CIA areas, where the agents planted numerous bugs. Tall, willowy and slim, with long blond hair and large eyes, Seina stood out at the annual Marine ball. "She was so good-looking," said a former Soviet employee. "She wore a long, elegant black dress and attracted attention." When the Soviet workers were withdrawn from the embassy, a U.S. diplomat was overheard asking, "What will we do without Violetta? We won't have anyone to look at around here...
...that the violence might mar next month's parliamentary elections, urged his countrymen last week to "use your heads" and ignore "rumormongers who would destabilize Egypt." Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior contended that the puzzling crosses were formed by dye stains in the synthetic fabrics used in Muslim dress...