Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Associated Press moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana jig ("My third dancing partner casually unstrapped his .38 and placed it under his hat on the chair...
...Miserable Years." Feiffer was born in The Bronx, and has never got over it. ("The place I grew up in didn't even have the dignity to be a slum.") His father held a variety of jobs, from dental technician to salesman; his mother was a fashion designer. Like his characters, Feiffer suffered many childhood frustrations. (''Echoes of my childhood keep creeping into my work. I'm sneaky-I hide behind my pictures.") In 1946 he got out of James Monroe High School to discover that he lacked half a credit to get into college...
...years ago. Rain drums like a dirge on the crumbling ruins of the great temple gate called Rashomon in Kyoto. Huddling in its shadows are three birds of strange omen-a Buddhist priest, a simple woodcutter (Akim Tamiroff) and a cynical wigmaker (Oscar Homolka)-who croak and cluck chorus-fashion about a hideous crime and the baffling trial testimony that followed...
After a first look at the new Paris styles, a veteran U.S. fashion specialist made his critique: "Hooray, they've finally put things-principally the bosom-back where they belong." That they had. At the annual spring fashion showings in Paris last week, the big news from dressmakers was the "return to normalcy...
Waists: Down. By tradition (and the essential limitations of design), fashion rings up changes in three areas: hemline, waist and shoulders. For 1959, hemlines and waists are lower. The trend is to nicely bloused tops, wider shoulderlines, sleeves that hover near the elbow level, big collars, plenty of pleats and button-downs-provided the top three buttons stay unbuttoned...