Word: flannelism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter, Indeterminancy. A man in sneakers and grey-flannel slacks walked over to the balloons and started popping them with a pin. A contralto in a sickly green satin cocktail suit began singing St. Louis Blues. A dancer in a black leotard skipped rope while the pianist slammed the keyboard with his elbows. "Five!" cried Cage, his arm descending like the second hand of a clock. Sneakers hit the piano strings with a dead fish. Black Leotard read a newspaper while marking time to the wail of the trombone by flipping a garbage can lid with her foot...
...flannel was at a premium. Every girl was sewing a red flannel bellyband for her favorite soldier, the theory being that it would keep out tropical fevers by day and the jungle damp by night. Private Charles Johnson Post was especially lucky. True, he had no ammunition when he left for the Spanish-American War, but he did have two gorgeous red bellybands...
Born. To Marisa Pavan, 27, cinemactress (The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit), twin sister of Cinemactress Pier Angeli; and Jean Pierre Aumont, 49, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): their second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Patrick. Weight...