Word: gown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lady comes across as Peck & Peck's good girl, appearing in neat, classically modest outfits that always seem to look like last year's models. The dress she has chosen for the Inaugural Ball will be older: for sentimental reasons, she is wearing the same blue chiffon gown she wore six years ago at her debut as the First Lady of Georgia. But besides something old and blue, she will also have something new-an ice blue evening cape by New York Designer Dominic Rompollo, who launched his own label only a year...
Moses, who had commissioned Marie Matise to design Rosalynn's six-year-old ball gown, wanted to do something special again for Jan. 20. He asked several designers for sketches. Rompollo, a forehanded fellow, had been collecting photographs of Mrs. Carter ever since the election in order to get a feel for her style. His suggested designs were the simplest...
...easy enough to tolerate in the floodtide of fellowship that ebbs and flows around Christmas. Holidays are over, however, a cold wet January is upon the land, and The Slipper and the Rose lingers on, looking as foolish as Cinderella hotfooting it out of the palace as her ball gown turns to rags...
...dark-gold curls [and] panther eyes" -not to mention a will of custard. Dominic and Marisa meet on page 42. On page 62 he rapes her. On page 86 he ties her to a bedpost and assaults her again. On page 192 the hero rips the heroine's gown to the waist before raping her a third time. On page 277 he brands her thigh with a red-hot fleur...
That picture of a demure young bride-to-be is not by Bradford Bachrach but by a salesman lucky enough to have had a camera in hand when Olga Korbut tried on a wedding gown in a St. Louis suburb. The darling of the 1972 Olympics, who is on an eleven-city U.S. tour with the U.S.S.R. National Gymnastics Team, pulled out three crisp $100 bills in J.C. Penney's to buy the gown and matching veil (total: $225). Olga, 21, plans to be married back home next year. Who is the lucky guy? "Just an ordinary boy," shrugs...