Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, a rapidly improving Crimson offense,coming off a season-high 63 percent performanceagainst Yale on Friday, shot a sizzling 64 percentfrom the floor in the second half...
...exhibit, which shows off some 112 costumes on three separate floors, is the museum's way of introducing itself. It will be succeeded in the spring by a show of Yves Saint Laurent, then of Christian Dior. There will be space on the fifth floor for permanent exhibition of items from the museum's collection of more than 10,000 costumes, a few of which date back as far as the 16th century. And there will be a boutique to sell reworkings of famous designer accessories, as well as space to restore clothes. In all, the museum will occupy eleven...
...fabled train, there is an arrangement of hats displayed in glass cases and perched on tree branches as if the silken, veiled and feathered extravagances were so many nesting birds. A full-figured mannequin lounges unclothed in erotic exhaustion on a rumpled bed, her lingerie strewn on the floor all around her. A whole range of vintage Schiaparellis is displayed nearby in a kind of scaled-down circus ring, the perfect setting for giddy fantasies of appliqued jungle beasts and performing animals...
...surrounds. "Moments of Fashion" sets high standards for working designers and future fashion exhibits. It is smartly curated and mounted with the kind of refinement that leaves room for a witty little coup like showing two pair of knee breeches on busily pedaling half-mannequins. On the top floor, some 18th century costumes move in almost antic procession on mannequins molded like silhouettes in some three-dimensional shadow play. Below, on the 19th century floor, a woman dresses for the opera in a ravishing gown by Charles Frederick Worth; across the gallery, an array of simple cottons and linens arranged...
Last week's declines stunned everyone, from commodities brokers to Texas oil barons. Panic swept the New York Mercantile Exchange, the nerve center of U.S. oil trading. "There was pure chaos on the floor," said Joel Faber, president of Faber's Futures and a governor of the exchange. As the price of crude fell, shipments of heating oil for February delivery plunged to 55.75 cents per gal., the lowest level since the late 1970s. Six blocks away, on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped a total of 26 points on Tuesday and Wednesday before pulling...