Word: fishnet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of the record boom has come a spate of new calypso nightclubs, or old nightclubs in calypso dress, most of them in the East. In upper Manhattan a saloonkeeper from County Cork recently had his ceiling strung with fishnet, his mirrors adorned with palm fronds, and proudly announced the conversion of the back room into the Ekim Calypso Dock. Mid-Manhattan's Le Cupidon closed down when calypso became popular, re-draped itself in hammock and palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added...
...Passing Seine. In Las Vegas, Nev.. the daily Sun printed an ad: "FISHNET, clean, 4 x 6 ft., suitable for den decoration or butterfly nets. Will exchange for halibut fillets...
...spectators can watch an hour-long musical (title: "More Power to You"), featuring a top-hatted elephant in a test of strength with a diesel bulldozer (the diesel wins), French acrobats performing from a 70-ft. crane, 35-ton bulldozers doing the mambo, girls posturing on a fishnet held aloft by two giant cranes...
...wife of burned-out (61) Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, airily counted her blessings. Of Tommy's divorce settlement offer of $260,000 in cash (tax free), plus other tokens of affection (jewelry, bonds, etc.), Anita cooed: "Wonderful, generous." A veritable seascape in her getup of fish-flecked sailcloth, a fishnet stole and assorted pearls. Anita announced, however, that she wants the exclusive right to pen Tommy's life story (tentative title: The Manville Myth) before she agrees to jettison him in Reno's divorce mill. Then she sadly observed that she would go straight back to Playboy Manville...
Audrey Hepburn wore a coronet in Roman Holiday; she wore a fishnet in Ondine. Now, in Sabrina, Miss Hepburn begins to wear a little thin...