Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for Item 2, there are obviously parallel charges that can be leveled at the excessive use of alcohol. But Giordano declares: "Surely it is not valid to justify the adoption of a new vice by trying to show that it is no worse than a presently existing...
...second marriage was on the skids and that he had a new romantic interest. Rumors of that sort trail almost any well-known politician, but this one seemed particularly persistent, perhaps because of the recollection of the Governor's rather abrupt divorce, and remarriage in 1963. The item appeared in print in a few places, but without Rockefeller's name. Then last week, with Rocky out of the race, Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson added the name...
...comings and goings of these fair-weather residents with a wry Yankee eye. Max Eastman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Hart Benton, James Cagney, Leonard Bernstein are the stuff of summer gossip. Such is its relish for celebrities that the Gazette mixes fact' with fantasy in breezy abandon. One memorable item revealed that "Truman Capote and Geraldine Chaplin have checked into the bridal suite of the Menemsha...
...jeweled belt before it hit the runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias silk twill. One item too special for mass reproduction: Valentino's hand-painted stockings, which sell Rome for $50 a pair. Reason, said Lord & Taylor, is that they are too fragile and too perishable...
...difficult to challenge the generals who are corps commanders. Thieu has embarked upon only a limited war against corruption, as a new Cabinet officer unwittingly demonstrated recently in his first instructions to his staff. After a stern warning that he would tolerate no corruption, he said: "If an item costs 100 piasters and you charge the department 200, I will summarily fire you. And if you charge 150 piasters, you will be severely reprimanded. But if you charge 110 piasters, that's O.K." He thereupon smiled knowingly at his aides...