Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...granny is not a grandmother but a garment: a dress that covers the wearer from neck to ankle, a kind of nipped-in Mother Hubbard gussied up with Victorian furbelows and bows. Real-life grannies would not be caught dead in one: grannies are only for girls...
They were lovely hangers for any dress. Baroness Fiona Thyssen slinked down the runway in harlequin pants by Galitzine. Princess Luciano Pignatelli drifted by in Valentino's feather-and-sequin coat. Princess Ira von Furstenberg pranced on in a Mondrian dress by St. Laurent. And princely P.R. Man Serge Obolensky, who had rounded up his titled friends to stage the haute couture parade, beamed as 2,600 ladies and their husbands paid $10 apiece to jam into Alexander's department store in Manhattan to see what fancy duds a bargain outfit could include on its racks -and incidentally...
...peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them out in the rain"). His Grace's advice on that "macro-snob" tradition, the weekend houseparty: "Do not go to bed with the hostess unless it is really necessary-almost unavoidable...
...bands blared When the Saints Go Marchin' In. On Capitol Hill, the Congressmen gave her a luncheon, and an admiring State Department man quipped, "She knows the United States so well I wouldn't be surprised if she produced a hot dog from the sleeve of her dress." A lot of people persisted in saying that Madame Chiang Kaishek, 67, had something up her sleeve as she sampled U.S. cooking and opinion for the first time in seven years. But Nationalist China's graceful First Lady, moving into the presidential suite of Washington's Shoreham Hotel...
...Hours is also enlivened by a couple of wild parties that are good to watch, thanks chiefly to a stunning Negro in a low-cut evening dress, of whom one of the guests says: "Under the shower she shines like a horse!" But the film's major flaw is a phony, febrile ending that shows the older and wiser married couple dispiritedly going back to their premarital assignations because, as the sound track intones, "The hours of love are scattered and fleeting...