Word: garbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long Johns. Such backwoods garb is actually as old as the hills-and mountains and streams-where the clothes fit in best. Venerable firms like L.L. Bean of Freeport, Me., Eddie Bauer of Seattle and Gokeys of St. Paul have been doing a brisk mail-order business in such gear for 50 years or more. Says Bean's bemused merchandising manager, Fred McCabe: "Fashion has just come round to us. We certainly haven't gone fashionable ourselves...
Count on both teams to show up in formal garb for the occassion, beginning...
...dirty work. Says one federal official: "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death." Dellacroce is a master of disguises. Known throughout the Mob as "Mr. O'Neill," he often donned priest's garb on his troubleshooting assignments for Gambino, earning his other name, "Father O'Neill." Dellacroce's men -undisguised-were at the motel meeting. They said nothing. They didn't have...
...sentence of the book as effortlessly as in nature: Time--arrested, slowed, kneaded by memory and chance, centuries disturbed like dust, recalled like a dream; Power--huge, inevitable, mysterious even to its wielder; Death--arriving at an unex-pected moment, as a carrion bird or in a penitent's garb; and, finally, the rituals of everyday life, expressed in the prepositional phrases, uncapitalized, unpersonified, that begin the book with "over the weekend" and end it with the drawing of the "uncountable time of [the patriarch's] eternity...
...Paris originals are always expensive. The frocks are romantically opulent, pointing away from unisex or any parody of male dress. Maybe women feel sufficiently liberated by now to allow themselves frankly "feminine" dress. But are women ready for such high costume-and would they feel comfortable in such operatic garb? At any rate, Saint Laurent seems to have decreed a turn away from politics (women a few years ago were wearing army shirts and cartridge belts) toward a different, Ballets Russes fantasy. The question is whether women will follow...