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...Passing Fad. Why the vogue for underwear turned outer? For one thing, Ts are relatively cheap (ranging from $3.25 to a top of $14.95); they also eliminate ties and the button crunching of laundries. And as Eloise Laws, 28, a black show-biz beauty shopping on Long Island, put it, "I chose the design, the color, the style. I feel like I created this one myself...
...grumpily, "such exclusive addictions to dream, mystery, mysticism, symbolism and the undefined." Under the circumstances it seems ironically right that three-quarters of a century after he died of stomach cancer in Paris, Moreau should now be having his first American retrospective in that breeding pool of every psychic fad, Southern California. Composed of 88 oils, water-colors and drawings, it has been assembled by Art Historian Julius Kaplan for the Los Angeles County Museum...
...thing this current fad of streaking has proved is that all men are not created equal...
...reflects the times. It is an expression of a society that puts less emphasis on breeding, formal education and even wealth than on presentation . . . It is a chic open to everyone, and qualifications for entry can be acquired as easily as learning the latest dance fad...
...your article on the current streaking fad [March 18], you say that "no end seems in sight." On the contrary. They are all in sight...