Word: dress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Punk is concerned essentially with the negation of traditional forms of society: good taste, politeness, moderation in dress and volume, and the family. Painters, writers and musicians had accomplished a similar negation before any of today's punks were born. The fractured images of any of Picasso's Guernica period paintings are as visually disturbing as a youth with a safety pin through his cheek. Atonal symphonies, far more dissonant and demanding than anything a punk can create with simple feedback techniques, have existed since the days when people still listened to Glen Miller. The best indicator of the punk...
...that they wanted to get married. Nehru was dismayed; he needed Indira to run his household. Feroze had no money, no job. "Nobody wanted that marriage, nobody," Indira said later, but she was adamant. Nehru himself wove a pink cotton sari for her to wear as her wedding dress. In 1944, Rajiv was born, and two years after that, Sanjay...
...shirt just like this last year for $17, and now they want $25." In Bellingham, Wash., Social Worker Mark Bronson, 34, and his wife Janice have two young children to clothe, and the price of even the smallest garments can make them wince. Says Janice, 29: "I saw a dress that I liked for my three-month-old daughter, but it was $34. This is ridiculous! I can buy a simple dress for myself for that. But she can only wear this tiny little dress three or four times, and then it goes into the garage-sale...
...dress designer's tax woes
...that year and a tax liability of just $19,834. In a statement last week, Nipon blamed the discrepancy largely on "the disallowance of expenditures for improvements, furnishings and renovations to my home, which were paid for by the company." Nipon and his wife Pearl, who heads the dress company's design team, live in Gladwyne, outside Philadelphia, in a Norman-style manor on a sumptuous 6.8-acre estate that he bought...