Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gently and revolving 'in gear.' I just slowly rolled down into the depths of the arrangement. Another was of a flowerbed type of pattern, or perhaps a purposeless pinball machine, with lights arranged in rows and columns. The lights-or flowers-were growing, then bursting in irregular fashion, one at the left, then the center...
...those who wish to broaden their knowledge on a century or so of fashion, Widener offers a number of interesting books. Among the earliest of the informative volumes is Mirror of the Graces whose author preferred to be called "A Lady of Distinction." She is a woman of many platitudes: "If beauty be a woman's weapon, it must be featured by the Graces, pointed by the eye of discretion, and shot by the hand of virtue...
...dramatically set off against sparkling white. There is a dearth of structural steel and timber, so the designers have almost universally turned to reinforced concrete. It is a building medium that can easily become clumsy and heavy, but the Latin Americans have seized on its highly plastic quality to fashion shell-like vaulting, bold cantilevers, curving façades that give high sculptural qualities to their best buildings...
...afraid other publishers were afraid they would be called Fascists." Regnery, who is used to being called worse, approached Franco through officials, persuaded him to do the book. U.S. publication date: 1957. Regnery had a chance to meet Franco, but he passed it up in typical fashion. Said he: "I'm not at all interested in Franco...
...from the General Assembly or from her permanent seat on the Security Council if she uses the veto, her loss of prestige and political bargaining power will certainly encourage the recognition of Communist China. Thwarting the expressed will of the other members of the United Nations in such a fashion is hardly the way for the Nationalist Government to support its pretensions to the role of a responsible world power...