Word: frill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foodless Flying. "The frill is gone," proclaim full-page National Airlines ads for a new $61 New York-to-Miami fare. On flights between Miami and ten other cities, National promises passengers a 35% saving over regular coach fares-but no meal-if they fly on a jumbo jet between Monday and Thursday and book a seat at least a week in advance. National's aim, said a company spokesman, "is to stimulate people to take vacations." Although foodless flying, which saves the airline about $4 a passenger, is largely an attempt to win back customers that National lost...
...drag jokes or anti-homophile inferences--in fact, they can be eliminated entirely. Instead, in show in which royal banquets where "the liquor flows like wine" are interrupted by would-be regicides with wooden spoons ("to stir the people to rebellion"), the chorus-line becomes one more irrelevant frill, part of an endless series whose insouciance about ordinary standards of sense as well as sensibility lets you just sit back and listen to the one-liners crackle...
...impact of the first-class-fare rise on demand for that service is less certain. Much first-class travel is done by businessmen, and many companies are cutting back on that frill to help weather a possible recession. Some airline officials would like to eliminate first-class service because costs for the extra food, champagne and stewardesses involved are rising sharply. Still, many airline men expect that as long as first-class seats are sold people will pay top dollar to be pampered. "The first-class passenger is a funny animal," says Continental Airlines Vice President Joe Daley. "He just...
...grass, the abstract wallpaper patterns in the sky. The artist, Hennequin of Bruges, actually based it on an illuminated manuscript. Yet the design of an episode like St. Michael's casting down of Satan and the rebel angels has an epic amplitude: the heavens part in a frill of white clouds, and from it the archangel plunges down to drive his spear into the seven-headed Beast; the coiling rush and flutter of his peach-colored robe is full of an ecstatic energy that belies the flat, heraldic space...
...large car is not a matter of choice or status for those of us with four or more children; our families will not physically fit into compact cars. Any time we go anywhere at all with the whole family, a large car is an expensive necessity, not a luxurious frill...