Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion industry, shook the earth again with its annual list of the ten best-dressed men. No. 1-surprise, surprise-is one of their own: Savile Row Tailor Colin Hammick, 42, characterized by the magazine as "a coat hanger-clothes hang perfectly on him." The real eyebrow raiser is No. 2 and the only American on the list: Singer Andy Williams, whose wardrobe favors slacks and casual sweaters. The magazine insists that "he looks good no matter what he wears." Eighth is the Duke of Windsor ("our former king puts to shame many a potential fashion man"), and tenth...
...inevitable Walter Matthau film that should result from this book, De Vries offers a cuckolded husband bursting into the Banghart kitchen justly bent on vengeance, only to be disarmed and routed by Tomcat Al in a fluffy apron, just putting his potatoes on. "Mmyes?" says Al, delicately smoothing an eyebrow...
...since been paid for locations close to Disney World's gates. Disney's economists indicate that the park's opening eventually may add $6.6 billion annually to state income, including $343 million in new tax revenues. Along with the new regional prosperity, however, have come some eyebrow-raising "special arrangements." Florida's legislature, influenced by skillful lobbyists, in 1967 passed three major bills that make Disney World in effect a city-state. Florida law now gives the Disney interests absolute control of everything within their property lines, including police and zoning powers as well as some...
...press, as well as other interested observers, were all but lulled to sleep. As Kissinger moved from Saigon to Thailand to India, the reporters who greeted him had little to write home about. So the 2½ days that Kissinger was missing and presumed ill in Pakistan raised scarcely an eyebrow...
...bureaucrats in using the lesser degrees of classification. Most communications with foreign governments fall into the secret category. But bureaucrats have got in the habit of stamping documents secret simply to make sure that their superiors will read them They know that a confidential classification will hardly raise an eyebrow. As for unclassified material, it is all but superfluous. As often as not, it consists of the transcript of a speech that was delivered in public...