Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...verdict, "She can't even cook rice," which once was enough to send a Japanese bride back to her parents in disgrace. Matsushita's vacuum-cleaner ad that promises women "freedom from one phase of household drudgery," introduces a notion that, though old hat in the West, marks a revolution in the status of Japanese women...
Sensible as it is in wintertime, the shapka requires some daring from its wearers. For, though the hat is worn all through Scandinavia as well as in Russia, many Americans associate it with Communism and the cold war. In Manhattan last year, a man in a shapka got on a subway train and sat down, whereupon a woman near by hissed: "Goddam foreigners!" He never wore his shapka again...
Abstract art, in its heyday after World War II, had a vitality and expressiveness that will forever enrich painting and sculpture. But in much of the abstractionist work of recent years, the vitality has seemed played out, and a sizable school of critics has decided that abstract is old hat. Last week, musing over the recent annual at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Frank Getlein, the conservative art critic for the liberal New Republic, gave a lively verdict on the state of abstraction today...
Such petty considerations do not dismay the crew or trouble the captain's mind. When the vessel somehow gets under way, Captain Foglemayer-the customer can tell he's the captain because he wears a gold-braided hat and keeps rolling two ball bearings around in his hand-calmly goes below with his broad, a slinky brunette named Virgie (Carolyn Jones), not forgetting to give the crew their instructions: "Fatten the hatches...
...selling Italian food. Four years ago, he decided to market his mother's version of tomato sauce and other Italian delicacies under the trade name Jeno, and put on a noisy sales campaign with company executives dashing around garbed in the Jeno symbol, a wide Italian hat. "Trouble was," says Paulucci. "we were selling a symbol, not a product. It was an utter failure." He lost $200,000, now sells only spaghetti sauce and pizza...