Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the French love of protocol, a pleasant informality reigns at the Quai. Any officer, however junior, can barge unannounced into the office of any other-with the exception of the minister, his secretary-general and the chief of personnel. Individualism is the fashion: if he wants to, an officer can bring his dog to the Quai, and even Couve de Murville occasionally appears with Jason, the son of Xenophon...
...years as fashion columnist for the London Observer, Katharine Whitehorn, 35, may have permanently revised the British notion of what a slut really is. To the uninitiated, a slut may remain a woman of easy virtue. But the dictionary's first definition is "a slovenly woman; a slattern," and that's the one the Observer's Whitehorn also likes. She asks: "Have you ever taken anything out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? Changed stockings in a taxi? Could you try on clothes in any shop, any time, without worrying...
...Afield. Defending untidiness may be a strange crusade for a fashion columnist. But Katharine Whitehorn is that kind of fashion columnist. The world of haute couture distresses her: " 'A useful little dress' means one with no distinguishing characteristics; 'romantic' means 'cleft to the waist.' " She regularly takes excursions far afield. Sometimes she drafts axioms that are applicable to the opposite sex: "No nice men are good at getting taxis." "If your wife looks like a sow's ear, try dipping into the silken purse." She excoriates local hairdressers: "I left the salon...
...year, put out word that next year's budget would total $100 billion, and that he, personally, was reviewing every cent of expenditure. Such tidings were aimed to please-and they have certainly had that effect on the U.S. business community, which has warmed to Johnson in rare fashion...
Stomach surgery has developed in a broken-gaited fashion, with surgeons periodically going back to and modifying old techniques. Physicians realized in the 1880s that man can get along, after a fashion, with only a remnant of his stomach. German-born Surgeon Theodor Billroth then decided it was possible to cut out the lower stomach and pylorus and join what was left of the stomach to the duodenum (see top diagram). After this "subtotal gastrectomy," or "Billroth I," came a still more daring invention, "hemigastrectomy," or "Billroth II": cutting out about half of the stomach and hitching up what...