Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achieves. If it doesn't interlock one's nervous system with its own and, so doing, deny such standard points of external reference as time and place, this is because the actors care more about their work than about their audience. They seem to be saying, in properly oblique fashion, that an audience can take care of itself...
...that the costume look may get out of hand. Sculptress Marisol finds the speed with which costumes change puzzling and hard to keep up with. Ex-Model Wilhelmina worries because "I want to be a lady in the long run, not a teen-ager." Alexander's high-powered Fashion Director Francine Farkas, who is responsible for the store's considerable success in selling young people on the new way of dressing, nevertheless thinks that it can lead to "uniformed individuality," meaning that the combination of wide-legged pants, vests and chains has been overworked to the point where...
Perhaps so, in the case of people with limited nerve and imagination. But for those with flair, fashion has seldom been more exciting. "Instant individualism" is how Henri Bendel President Geraldine Stutz describes what is happening, and she notes that it is also a safe way to dress. After all, she says, "no two people can really come out with the same combination, even if they use the same six or seven components...
...Basement is a simpler play and almost too pat. A man named Law (Ted van Griethuysen) sits reading a book of illustrated Persian erotica. An old chum, Stott (James Ray), shows up. The pair chat in laconic Pinter fashion for a while, and then Stott asks if he can bring in a girl friend. Jane (Margo Ann Berdeshevsky) enters, and she and Stott promptly strip, get into Law's bed and make love. Law goes back to his book of Persian erotica...
Apartment living began to fall out of fashion in the U.S. soon after World War II. Over the past two decades, the nation has built four private homes for every new rental dwelling. This year, after seesaw performances during most of the '60s, apartment construction is making a comeback that surprises economists, delights landlords, and quite possibly signals a fundamental shift in how most Americans will choose to live in the years ahead. "Demand is so strong that you could almost leave out the bathroom and rent a new apartment," says California Developer Gerson Bakar, whose 994-unit Woodlake...