Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd was ready for a tour de force. Dressed in a green evening gown with matching coat, Martha went to the podium, issued a little squeal and began her monologue. Pausing, she whipped out a little red telephone, dialed and said: "Hello, is this United Press International? Hurry and get me Isabelle Hall [one of Mrs. Mitchell's telephone friends]. Isabelle? This is Martha. No, I'm not in a canoe. I'm at the Sheraton Park. I can't talk very loud because John is listening...
Chris Montgomery is a good tight end, and according to a Princeton manager, "not a bad guy." Montgomery has made the long and arduous climb to social glory at Princeton. Once a high school student in Kansas, he is now a member of Princeton's chubbiest club, Cap and Gown...
Rags discovers what some young people are wearing simply by sending photographers into the streets. Among its rarer finds: a girl with a shaved head in a bright orange gym suit, a mini-outfit made out of an old valance and a floor-length gown "made out of old curtains that I ripped off of this house from which I was evicted because I was mad at the landlady...
...cutouts of circles, rectangles and even pear shapes slashed into long skirts. The other half turned on the past, with tight little jackets and dresses Susan B. Anthony would have been the first to vote for. Showstoppers: a series of sweeping Byronic capes and a black-sequined evening gown that undulates like a Japanese lantern in a gentle wind...
Liszt was the first. He dropped by to say hello one day in the 1930s when Rosemary Brown was only seven. "He had long white hair and wore a black gown," she recalls, "and he told me that when I grew up, he would give me music." Sure enough, one day in 1964, when Rosemary was playing the piano in her home in Laitwood Road, Balham, one of London's poorer suburbs, she suddenly lost control of her hands. She looked up and there was Liszt, hawk nose, white hair, black gown and all, guiding her fingers over...