Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painted on their sides. Also hard: a "prancesuit" made up of a melon crepe tunic and thigh-tight knee pants with blue crystal trim and blue shoes to match. The soft(expectable) surprise comes in the form of Paris spring fashions, from Dior's white hunting jacket to St. Laurent's daytime version of "le smoking...
...Beatles. He has lately developed a passion for the "rugged primitivism" of rock 'n' roll, recently turned up at an avant-garde concert to play his Bachian treatment of the Beatles' song Yesterday. Attired in the accepted uniform of Hans Brinker cap and rumpled corduroy jacket, he goes to Greenwich Village to hear shockrock, stays up half the night in the coffeehouses discussing philosophy and the merits of LSD. "The only reason I'm not an acidhead right now," he says, "is that I have to play these damn concerts...
...looking glass, and then strolls toward his Mercedes. Looking back, he catches a glimpse of his wife, trim in her Bogner ski pants, carrying her Italian boots out to her M.G. He notices she is wearing only a cashmere sweater, and he hopes she remembers her Russian sable jacket for her trip to the ski slopes. The memory of her French perfume haunts him on his trip into town, and he toys with the idea of buying her a South African diamond as a surprise...
...England's most controversial economist," as the dust jacket correctly bills Thomas Balogh, believes that the world is a ticking time bomb. Rich nations are getting richer while poor nations are getting poorer-and unless the trend is radically reversed, warns the author, all the colored races will embrace Chinese-style totalitarianism. His thesis is well-worn and his stark pessimism is questionable, but the problem of widening inequalities is all too real and urgent...
...really need a new party concept not necessarily based on a strict, strait-jacket ideology, but rather on a broad program of courageous reform mentality. I may say, that's what some of us are trying to organize...