Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Final Victim. Corazon said that the killer later asked Patricia Matusek, 21, who was wearing a yellow nightgown: "Are you the girl with the yellow dress?" It was a possible confirmation that he had watched the girls enter and leave the apartment from a park near by. Apparently none of the victims put up a violent struggle, according to the survivor, though three of the girls had cried "ah!" in muffled voices. One of the Philippine nurses cried "masakit!"Tagalog for "it hurts...
...celestial chorus. He specially enjoyed sketching extravagant costumes for the court ladies, most of which he designed so that the ladies were prettily, if ingenuously, exposed, wearing at most diaphanous veils across the bosom. Seventeenth century ladies, however, were an imperious lot, and had no compunctions about altering their dress to suit themselves. History does not record how many of them actually chose to turn up bare-breasted at the festivities...
...years "since Berkeley" (Fall, 1964), college campuses in many parts of the country have reportedly witnessed an unprecedented level of organized student protest over campus conditions. Many of the "issues" are old ones: food service, dress regulations, dormitory regulations, curriculum inflexibility, quality of teaching. Others may be new, such as the nature of rules regarding appearances on campus of controversial figures, alleged fraternity discrimination, degree of student participation in campus policy-making. During the academic year 1964-1965, more colleges were scenes of demonstrations about dormitory and other living group regulations and campus food service than about U.S. posture...
Manchester interviewed such historic walk-ons as the presidential baggage-master, J.F.K.'s White House French teacher and a soldier who carried a wreath in the funeral procession. He examined the coffin in which Kennedy's body was brought to Washington, studied Jackie's bloodied pink dress in the Georgetown attic where it has been stored since she took it off, walked the entire five-mile motorcade route in Dallas. In the end, he molded his mountain of minutiae into a highly dramatized reconstruction of the tragedy...
...awards, which grind on endlessly, honoring the best stunt man to fall off a burning building in a foreign independently produced black-andwhite wide-screen musical comedy, the $450,000 Tony spectacular restricted the on-camera awards to just twelve categories, devoted the rest of the time to full-dress performances from the four best-musical nominees...