Word: frocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest political sleights of hand since Ronald Reagan promised to decrease taxes, increase spending, balance the budget all at the same time, the television evangelist Pat Robertson has declared that he is going to run for President. The good Reverend won't actually throw his frock into the political arena unless three million people indicate their support for him in the next year. Robertson has deftly avoided appearing too political while at the same time creating the beginnings of a populist "Draft Robertson" campaign...
...five-year-old son Brandon. Joel Stillman, 38, and his wife Renee, 38, of suburban Detroit spent $800 on smart-looking ski outfits and equipment for their son Jonathon, 11, and daughter Sara, 8. Karen Topalian, 40, bought her daughter Kendra, almost 2, a $120 yellow pima cotton frock. Says Topalian, who lives in Cohasset, Mass.: "I love my children to look nice...
...Natalie Wood in a shroud? And who would Harvard students most want to see gracing their dorm walls--Mel Gibson brandishing a laser gun or James Dean brandishing a cigarette? And what picture better represents mock-native cinematic sexuality than Marilyn Monroe struggling with her out-of-control white frock over a dark subway grid? Even Madonna's hairy armpits can't compete...
...President. Another wore a red-white-and- blue stocking cap set off with blue lipstick. A few male contenders looked suspiciously as if they had blow-dried their hair and patted on a bit of makeup. The U.P.I.'s veteran Helen Thomas blinded them all in a frock with patches of blue, orange, raspberry and green. "We'd better get a fire extinguisher," said Press Secretary Larry Speakes. Portraits of George and Martha Washington stared down on sound technicians who padded below in their Nikes. With the lights full ablaze, the atmosphere was, as Donaldson suggested, something like a prizefight...
...Runnymede dinner service at $556 for a 25-piece set ($800), a dozen Waterford crystal glasses at $258 ($402). At the nearby Laura Ashley shop, just off Sloane Square, about half the customers are Americans. They spend an average of $245 each on such items as a pastel flowered frock ($43) or a cotton sweater ($37)--about a third to a half the prices in Ashley's U.S. branches. Tourists crowding into the china-reject shops in Knightsbridge find a five-piece place setting of Royal Worcester's Evesham for $26, Baccarat crystal wineglasses...