Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plumes for My Rich Aunt." British Journalist Alan Whicker describes the world of Paris haute couture as glamorized by models "who can wear furs in August, swimsuits in December . . . and look snooty and deadpan even with sand in their shoes" in this bizarre peek at the citadel of high fashion. Interviews with Designers Gerard Picard and Pierre Balmain...
...early '60s, relates U.S. Circuit Judge George Edwards, police sometimes told him that prisoners hurt themselves "falling on the precinct steps." He wondered how a handcuffed man, surrounded by four officers, could possibly suffer a "four-inch cut on the top of the head" in such a fashion and ordered his cops to tell him the facts. He never again received such a report?and, he adds, prisoners tended to "fall" less frequently. Oakland police were incredibly vicious during antidraft demonstrations last October; while Reddin defends the conduct of his men in the Century City melee, he has since issued...
...Crematorium. Many West Berlin businesses have set up shop elsewhere, with the result that the city has already been superseded as West Germany's financial center by Frankfurt and is now being challenged in the fashion industry by both Munich and Düsseldorf. Siemens, West Germany's biggest electrical-equipment company, moved its headquarters out of West Berlin after World War II, and others have followed suit. The inconvenience of maintaining facilities geared to West German markets in West Berlin is only too apparent. Complained one industrialist after recently abandoning Berlin: "Last year I spent 250 days...
...Fashion can be bought," said one-time Vogue Editor Edna Woolman Chase. "Style one must possess." The Thomas Crown Affair has spent millions on fashion; Faye Dunaway makes 31 smashing costume changes, while Steve McQueen appears in $350 suits and consults a $2,250 Patek Philippe watch. The screen that exhibits them is a flashy replay of Expo 67 techniques, fragmenting into scores of tiny separate images like a mint sheet of stamps, or simultaneously showing five characters in five different places...
...Patrolman August say "Yes"? What destroyed the controls August had carefully built up? Was he just especially susceptible to the heady power granted by a gun and a badge, or would most whites react in the same fashion in a similar situation? Hersey has sacrificed his ability to suggest answers to these questions in order to write his documentary...