Word: hiro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York and San Francisco. In the pages of Bazaar, models take on the appearance of butterflies and snakes, Egyptian mummies and rockets about to be shot into space, under riotously colored silks, and heaps of sequins and feathers. In a 14-page spread by the Japanese photographer Hiro in the current February issue, models' bodies seem to disintegrate beneath colorful prints. Yet in the same issue are page after black and white page of elegantly understated suits and coats...
...went the paper airplanes around the room. It was the 31st-birthday reception of Japan's Crown Princess Michiko, who seemed to be spending most of her time folding missiles for her son Prince Hiro, 5, to buzz the photographers with. The princess expects a second child at the end of November...
...father, Emperor Hirohito, is Japan's most famous Sunday marine microbiologist; his brother, Prince Yoshi, is a cytologist; and his son, Prince Hiro, is a confirmed admirer of the elephants at the zoo. With science all around, Crown Prince Akihito himself is no slouch when it comes to ichthyology. He has just finished a treatise on the shoulder blades of the goby fish, and used his 30th birthday press conference to announce a tonic devised to restore the appetite of his wife, Princess Michiko, still ailing after a March abortion. The "particularly effective delicacy," said the prince, consists...
...Hiro Hingorani, who lives in Nehru's home town of Allahabad, sifted through hundreds of pictures of his hero, finally drew his inspiration from Boris Chaliapin's TIME cover (Dec. 14, 1959). Having first sketched an outline, Hingorani pricked a finger of his left hand and dipped his brush. After drawing out 30 cc. of his own blood, he decided that this method was too slow, went to his local blood bank, which obligingly drew off another 20 cc. of his blood. It was enough to finish the job, though he decided not to sap his strength further...
...Indians of the Five Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) were called Iroquois by the French because they allegedly closed conversations with the words hiro ("I have spoken") and koué ("with joy" or "with sorrow," depending on the tone of voice used...