Word: exoticisms
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Shoppers lingered longingly over jumpsuits in gung-ho cuts and colors, carefully fingered exotic fabrics. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, swimsuits and playclothes were selling as if August were around the corner. At I. Magnin in San Francisco, suavely tailored pants outfits and evening pajamas vied for attention. Many...
Many do, prompting some educators to criticize the New School as the Bloomingdale's of academe-an institution run more on fads than serious study. Still, the New School is flourishing, while many private colleges are struggling to keep afloat. In fact, Temple University recently set up a Center...
Died. Joseph R. ("Yellow Kid") Weil, 100, confidence man extraordinary and regular jailhouse boarder; in Chicago. Weil donned gentleman's garb and artfully flimflammed hundreds of marks, including horseplayers who fell for his phony wiretap schemes for beating the odds, lovers of exotic pets who bought his talking dogs...
MARK O'DONNELL'S lyrics are generally good--most songs have one or two saving lines, and the only offensive line I can remember comes in "Feel Free to take Liberties," when Preston Folded invites Third World refugees to come to the United States because "I can't refuse your...
If it's New York, I like to make a bedroom into a greenhouse. If it's London, I like to do something exotic so you don't notice the climate." Her credentials? "I've decorated all the homes I've lived in. And family...