Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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asked Men's Wear. Decrying Nelson Rockefeller's wardrobe as a "sartorial mess" suffering from a case of "terminal boredom," the editors sought suggestions on Rocky's behalf from four fashion designers. Bill Blass complained that "it's difficult to dress politicians because there's an aspect of insincerity about them." But Blass, along with two of the other designers, prescribed pin stripes for Rocky. "He would have new confidence in himself if he were to care how he looked and maybe people would start noticing him instead of his money," said Piero Dimitri helpfully...
There are only two ways to mount a project like this: for gilded fun, which is fair enough, or for serious suspense, which is perilous, considering the mechanics of the plot. Director Sidney Lumet tries to avoid the problem in typical fashion-by getting around it. He tries to make the pasteboard characterizations more winning, if hardly more real, by casting luminaries in the roles...
...count, however, is not enthusiastic about the trip. "I suppose this means we'll have to pack," he sulks, and he worries about the appropriateness of his wardrobe, which runs mostly to black evening dress. "Maybe they're a little out of fashion." Anton reassures him about his clothes, "but they suit you." He bundles the count into the back of a touring car, lashes his wheelchair and coffin to the roof, and drives...
...Soviet Union. In an effort to persuade more draft evaders and deserters to respond to his flagging amnesty program, he granted full pardon to eight convicted resisters and conditional clemency to ten others. To counter criticism that his White House has not yet focused on domestic problems in the fashion that it has foreign affairs, Ford has decided, TIME has learned, to make Nelson Rockefeller his domestic "czar" once Rockefeller is-confirmed as Vice President by Congress...
...decline is no longer confined to autos and home building, which is down 33% from early 1973, as it has been for most of this year. In classic fashion, the recession* has begun to work its way through the entire economy. Although demand for home freezers is still high, with housewives stocking up on food to beat rising prices, sales of other major appliances-TV sets, washing machines, dryers, vacuum cleaners-are turning sick, and layoffs are spreading in the plants that make them...