Word: jacketful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholars on such hip topics as "The Role of Jazz in American Culture." New to the scene was a pair of Russian wolfhounds representing Wolfschmidt vodka, and a "fashion-jazz spectacular" titled "Newport Is a Lark" and featuring such jazz-inspired fashions as a Bop Period "nasturtium-colored velveteen jacket lined and piped with hot pink shantung." Musical novelty: the "first authentic American jazz ballet," a 22-minute retelling of the Harlequin-Columbine story to music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. The ballet's major character innovations were a bop-goggled Pantaloon and a Beat Generation Harlequin, wearing dark...
...kept her royal composure drinking soapy-tasting kava in Fiji and eating breadfruit in Tonga, while laka laka dancers whirled about her to the eerie music of nose flutes. In Jamaica, the Queen was unruffled when an idolater threw his cream-linen jacket at her feet and prostrated himself, crying, as the police hauled him away, "I want the Queen to walk on my coat-I love the Queen!" Rarely did the royal nerves give way, but once, in New South Wales, the Queen and Prince Philip seemed to be squabbling as their closed car whisked through a town...
...fabrics in evening and cocktail dresses, have used fur trim lavishly. The dressier clothes cost more, promising retailers both higher unit and dollar volume. Fur Pants. Another place where the luxury look shows up is in the rising popularity of elegant casual costumes. Many top fashion houses are showing jacket-and-trouser sets to be worn to cheer the tired executive after a hard day at the office. Variations range from Fredrica Furs' $1,195 nutria car coat with pants of hamster fur (retail price of pants: $195) to Designer Lisa Fonssagrive's Edwardian smoking jacket and pants...
...construction gang in Alberta and tending a bookstore, Harold found himself, in 1921, by founding Broom. Names famed and forgotten spill from Author Loeb's pages like unstuck pictures from a family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour and uncommunicative on everything but French provincial cooking (he loved it); and Tristan Tzara, the papa of Dada, leading his esthetic Bolsheviks with a wave of his monocle...
Hidden Persuader. In Denver, on trial for possession of burglary tools (a sledge hammer concealed under his jacket), James H. Fielder won acquittal when he explained: "I carry this for protection in case somebody tries to pick a fight with...