Word: goma
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...inaugurated by Dior's A-shape; this year the alphabet has yielded a softer, swirlier letter as a theme-S. At the end of a week studded with the usual fashion-show crises (Red Cross ambulances stood by for crush victims, models fainted as Zippers caught, Designer Michel Goma was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis), the trend was clear: this year's styles-though not yet ready to hug-make tentative overtures toward the female figure...
Crahay, of the house of Ricci, plunges décolletage both fore and aft (either one or the other, not both at once), swirls one-armed capes around suits and coats. Balmain's tubular sheaths stick to the body like spies but turn coy beneath coverup chiffon overlayers. Goma's collection-the theme is "looping the loop"- shows wasp waists and a high bustline. Griffe, who claims to have "rediscovered woman," calls his shape the "jet line," fans permanent pleating out from just underneath the arms or from mid-front and back to the hem. Jacques Heim...
...interrupted with a scream from the vendeuse: "But darling, you're wearing it back to front!" When Madeleine de Rauch's collection failed to follow the flapper trend, the audience began to leave, and waiters dashed in with champagne to stem the bored retreat. In contrast, Designer Goma got such an enthusiastic response that at the end of his showing he swooned away amid the applause...
...wholly happy, for Franco and the Vatican are deadlocked over his demand for the same veto power on the investiture of bishops that the monarchy exercised under the 1851 Concordat. As a result, nearly half the sees are vacant, and Spain has had no primate since Isidore Goma y Tomas, Archbishop of Toledo, died last year...
Last August, the Primate of Spain, Isidore Cardinal Goma y Tomás, wrote in a pastoral letter: "Why not indicate here that in Nationalist Spain there has not taken place the moral and religious reaction which was hoped for from the nature of the movement and the great trial to which we were subjected by the justice of God? It is painful to note that the fulfillment of the holy commandments of the Law of God and of the Church is not what was to be expected after receiving such a tremendous lesson. There are parishes where hardly...