Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baby Jane Holzer, a sometime mod el, played at being Ariel in Simonet-ta's backless, almost frontless halter-top dress of pink chiffon, but stubbornly sat out all the dancing "to promote my new image," whatever that meant. Obviously there was a genuine chance that in a moment of abandon her dress might abandon her. Maybe the new Baby Jane just doesn't do that sort of thing any more. Not at the Plaza, anyway...
...some ways, Hanoi is even prospering. A good rice crop after two mediocre ones has put more food in the shops, and people look well-fed. Uncle Ho's austere example in private dress is losing emulation: Hanoi women are beginning to blossom in bright, gaily patterned blouses, and modest but earnest suits are replacing the peasant tunics of the men. "The State Store," once an elegant French department store, offers secondhand violins, guitars, and there are tennis rackets, jerseys and soccer boots for the boys who still gambol under the Red River Bridge. But there are also shortages...
...relations staff on Guam. It was Dietz' job to greet officials visitors, such as Congressional delegations, and take them on tours of the island. When a delegation lost all its baggage, as one actually managed to do, Dietz was supposed to commiserate with the Congressman on their inability to dress for dinner with the Admiral...
...finding something blue in New York -namely, cops-their efforts at selecting something new for Luci's trousseau proved more trying. With about as much secrecy as surrounds a National Security Council meeting, the ladies held court in the 34th floor Presidential Suite of the Carlyle Hotel, while dress designers laden with garment bags swished in past lines of cold-eyed Secret Service men. No word of what Luci chose in the way of a gown was permitted to leak out to the expectant reporters in the lobby, and Lady Bird was triumphant at having kept them...
...earlier England" by Composer Virgil Thomson. After a drum roll and a flurry of brass, the music settled down to a sober exercise in what might be called ye olde atonality, a weaving and heaving of dissonant strings with baroque-style embellishments. It was Purcell in modern dress with the stitches showing...