Word: item
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necktie is not only the most useless item of apparel [Jan. 31]; it is also the most uncomfortable-a constant noose around a man's neck. The ladies are welcome to "strike back" as much as they wish...
...feel(s) that not enough was done to clarify (the article's) value premises." Are these different from the sociopolitical values in item No. 2? The key value, personal, not sociopolitical, behind the article is my abiding conviction that it is better to know than not to know. In fact, I find it hard, albeit not impossible, to think of counter-instances, but none in regard to my article. If Professor Kelman advocates censorship of information concerning the topics covered in my article, he should...
...psychiatrists. One notable exception was the conference of the World Psychiatric Association in Mexico City last autumn. There, the Soviet Ministry of Health's chief psychiatrist Dr. Andrei Snezhnevsky argued that an appeal from Soviet dissidents was merely "a cold war maneuver," and managed to keep the item off the agenda...
...contest to single out the single most useless item of apparel, the necktie wins in a walk. At best, it adds a modest splash of color to the Adam's apple; at worst, it makes a wearer appear to have been the recent victim of a mad tracheotomist. But with the coming of high-heeled shoes and shoulder purses for men, it seemed impossible that the ladies would not strike back. Now they have: in the gilded salons of Manhattan, London and Paris, the flouncy belles of yesteryear are turning out in man-tailored jackets, fly-front trousers...
...several more serious films (Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder was one) were made in 3-D but released flat when studios discovered that the craze was dying down after audience complaints of headaches from imperfect projection. These days the process is used only for an occasional exploitation item like The Stewardesses. Too bad. Besides supplying some nostalgic shudders, House of Wax fleetingly suggests that in the right hands, 3-D could have been a good deal more than a stunt...