Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilde rebutted the industrial revolution with flowing locks and velvet suits; he warded off its fumes with a long-stemmed flower. The modern dandy, on the other hand, revels detachedly and deliciously in the vulgarity of mass culture. And the word is not dandyism any more. According to one of Manhattan's brightest young intellectuals, Novelist Susan Sontag, the word is "Camp...
...FAIR LADY. The movie version of the Lerner-Loewe classic is as big, bountiful and beautiful as ever, with Rex Harrison repeating his Shavian success opposite Audrey Hepburn, who is a passable flower girl and a Lady second to none...
...what wonders Du Pont will uncork next is hard to forecast, if only because the company's compass is so wide. Du Pont's chemists-like their colleagues throughout the chemical industry-never stop asking questions: How can electricity be transmitted without causing heat, what makes plants flower when and how they do, what are some new commercial possibilities of magnetism? Along the way, the perpetual search produces so many new products and processes that Du Pont is hard-pressed to find names for all of them, has called upon a computer to assemble 153,000 possible...
...FAIR LADY. The movie version of the Lerner-Loewe musical classic is big, bountiful, and beautiful as ever, with Rex Harrison repeating his Shavian tour de force opposite Audrey Hepburn, who is a passable flower girl and a Lady second to none...
Marshall has rescued the company by automating to trim payroll costs from 69% of revenue to 57% last year, by closing unprofitable telegraph offices and by adding such new services as flower orders, wake-up calls and candy-by-wire in the 15,000 offices that remain. The company has made money every year since 1950, last year netted $16.8 million on $297 million in sales...