Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mannequins were laden with vast, tiered skirts of taffeta, mousseline, velvet, satin and faille in coruscating combinations of colors. They were turbaned, feathered, booted, shawled, cinched, tasseled and encrusted from head to foot in braid, beads, rickrack and passementerie. The so-called Fantasy Look, which seemed more suitable for grand opera than for real life, was a melange of styles derived from the Russian, Gypsy, Cossack, Moroccan, Indian and Victorian...
...that actually, it was hopelessly out of date for Americans. "The collection has no relationship to what's happening to women today," observed Ralph Lauren. Halston declared that "the costume party is over for America." Others, like Clovis Ruffin, loved it. "It reminds me of the grand old days of Paris." he said. Giorgio Sant' Angelo called it "beautiful," adding, "but to me it looks like a very old revolution...
...surface pressure on Mars is so low* that liquid water would probably boil away). But liquid water apparently once did flow freely on the Martian surface in earlier days; Viking's orbital pictures show that the planet is crisscrossed by dry "riverbeds" and sinuous valleys, including a deep Grand Canyon-like depression called the Valles Marineris, that were probably carved out by running water. During Viking's descent, the lander's instruments sniffed and measured both nitrogen (3%) and argon (1.5%) in the Martian atmosphere. Nitrogen is an essential element in the molecules of terrestrial life. Also...
...conservative estimate, they will spend some $500 million in London's stores, restaurants, clubs and real estate agencies. Often paying in cash, Arab buyers have practically cornered the market in high-priced British real estate, swooping up castles, country manors and great town houses in one Arab grand salaam...
Superhumans? Subhumans? Figments of a science-fiction writer's imagination? In fact, the Dani are living quite nicely, thank you, in the Grand Valley of West Irian (formerly West New Guinea), where they were studied for 2½ years by Karl Heider, an anthropologist from the University of South Carolina. Heider, who has taught at Harvard, Brown and Stanford, describes the abstemious sexual behavior of the 5,000-member tribe in the current issue of Man, the journal of Britain's Royal Anthropological Institute. He reports finding no strong sanctions against sexual activity or any other ready explanation...