Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model, lean and remote, seems rapt in some asexual trance. She walks with a swift, gliding walk, and twirls once, as a girl assistant in nondescript black announces in a flat, noncommittal voice: "Colombine, quarante-et-un, fawr-ty-wan." The model hovers, slips off the jacket and hands it to the assistant, who accepts it in silence, impersonal and invisible as an attendant on some ancient hetaera. The stolid faces stare C'l listen for a certain quality of silence." says Dior). The model twirls again and is gone...
...Flat Look" of two years ago created an uproar; but in fact, only one dress out of five actually incorporated the flat line. The rest were soundly rounded, and sold very well while the Flat Look fell medium flat...
Within the guarded inner labyrinth of the Pentagon, five men sit at a brightly polished table in soundproofed Room 2C923. Around them the walls are covered with maps: a relief map of Europe, flat blue maps of the Pacific and the Atlantic, brown-and-gold maps of the land masses of Asia and Africa. Spotted strategically across the grey wall-to-wall carpeting are wastebaskets stenciled SECRET.* Four of the five men are doing most of the talking; the fifth is listening, chain-smoking Parliaments, working intricately filigreed doodles on a white notepad with the preoccupation...
...Ralph Richardson), bonzer old dag that. It's a zac and a deener and a caser at a time, mind you, but before you can say Yupottipotpong, he's financial. But right then-wouldn't it?-he throws a yonny through the church window and goes flat stoney...
...Primate takes precedence of all but Royal Dukes"). But Emily, no ordinary chimp, knows how to read. She takes a course in the British Museum, and she thinks she had better start at the beginning with The Origin of Species. Soon, except that she likes to enter her flat by climbing the drainpipe, and that she has a humble and loving heart (at the mission school she had heard the hymn, "He that is low need fear no fall"). Emily is indistinguishable from other intellectuals...