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Your discussion of androgyny in our society misses the point entirely [SEXES, July 23]. What would you say about a man who wears velvet pants, lace collars, silk stockings, a purse and a perfumed handkerchief? Would you consider him part of the breakdown of civilization as we know it? No, he is Louis XIV of France. History repeats itself, especially fashion history, and that is all this manifestation is, fashion regression...
...mentioned the names of some of those responsible for the success of the civil rights movement in their various contradictory ways: Martin Luther King Jr., George Wallace, Robert Kennedy, Lester Maddox . . . The voice was muffled and much thicker than one had prayed. He spoke as if he had a handkerchief in his mouth. I suggested that maybe throwing the Olympic medal off the bridge had helped in that cause too? He did not comment...
...hauled out a fishing-tackle box that contained his magic tricks. That is his ritual these days. He waved a black wand. At his cry of "Hah!" it turned into a red flag. "Pretty good?" A white cone snapped into life as a handkerchief. Balls appeared and vanished. A dime disappeared into a penny...
...guepiere; be padded out the front hip bones and used every known trick of the art of couture in elaborately constructing his models. To add the ultra-feminine look of these costumes, Dior added small flowered hats with veils, high-heeled shoes, colored gloves to match a buttonhole or handkerchief, long slim umbrellas to tone with shoes and bag, and two or four strings of pearls...
Several officers desperately tried to move their pinned-down men off the beach. But there were only four heavily defended exit roads and the bluffs ahead. "They're murdering us here!" cried Colonel Charles D. Canham, commander of the 116th Regiment, a blood-soaked handkerchief around his wounded wrist. "Let's move inland and get murdered...