Word: kimonoed
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...throat. She looked different, too. The wattles and jowls were gone. She has lost more than 30 Ibs., now weighs 102, but when someone asks her how much weight she has lost, she says, "About 185 Ibs."-i.e., her former husband, Producer Sid Luft. Instead of the familiar semi-kimono paunch-hiding maternity robes, she was wearing tight skirts and ski pants...
These defects are amply compensated by the atmosphere in the Rashomon. Lovely waitresses in kimono add to the pleasantness of the meal, and some low Japanese-style tables are available at which diners sit crosslegged on cushions. One can even get personal instruction in the use of chopsticks, and if, afterwards one still fishes vainly for a piece of tofu in the sukiyaki, a smiling waitress will give assistance...
...eight years he had married and had a good position as a wiring inspector. But again he quit, scraping together $97.50 to start a tiny business making an electric socket he had designed. It failed miserably ("It was a grim year. I had to pawn my wife's kimono"), but he struggled along with subcontract work until he developed an electrical attachment plug that could be sold for 30% less than his competitors' plugs. By the time he was 27, he was a success...
There are times in Archipenko's more recent work when experiment drowns out art, when the struggle is too obvious, the effect too contrived. But in 1961 he could still turn out work of extraordinary range. His Kimono at the Perls Galleries has the simple and timeless authority of a primitive mask; his Linear Oriental is a daring swoop of lines as graceful as a woman's dress. Archipenko is not much in fashion these days; yet the old freshness still shows through. Modern art owes him a debt, and the debt has not all been paid...
...barefoot, kimono-clad contestants bowed, gripped sleeves, and stared at each other with furious concentration. The silent S.R.O. crowd in Paris' Pierre de Coubertin Stadium strained to catch the first muscular move. With The Netherlands' hulking (6 ft. 5 in. 238 lbs.) Anton Geesink fighting Japan's smaller (6 ft. 1 in. 198 lbs.) Koji Sone, much more than the judo (literally, "gentle way'') championship of the world was at stake. This was a challenge to Japan's dominance over her own national sport, and it was the ultimate test...