Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew was William Faulkner. He was born there, in Mississippi, heir to and prisoner of the crinoline-and-lace tradition; he died there in 1962. In writing 19 novels and 80 short stories, almost all about the South, he won through to an understanding that in its richness, scope and completeness, tragic vision and comic invention, will not soon be equaled. At his best he penetrated the magnolia curtain of Southern illusions to the secret springs of motive and action. He said, in effect, "This is the way it feels to be Southern"-something the North needs to know...
...13th century church of Gardslosa, the pink-faced groom, British Trucking Executive John Ambler, 40, waited beside an altar trimmed with wild flowers and flanked with birch trees. Television lights gleamed on the bride's golden crown and her simple wedding dress and veil of Brussels lace. Standing before Lutheran Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren, Margaretha answered the traditional question with a soft "Ja." Ambler said, "I will...
...best of times, Parisians did not know it. Girls in lace frills climbed excitedly into the first asth matic automobiles. Bearded, droopy-eyed Edward VII took his cigar and his carnation to the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergere. Donning top hats, venturesome souls climbed nonchalantly into a balloon and blithely sipped champagne, up and up, to shiver in their stiff collars at the dizzy height...
...resents it," growled Edward, Duke of Windsor, vetoing cake and candles for his 70th birthday dinner at Maxim's. But somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...
...newest, chicquest, sleek and swishest way to stay in style. And there are hundreds of styles to choose from-harem trousers and bellbottom slacks, pantaloons, culottes and jump suits among them. Dressed-up pajamas all, most are sold with tops and accompanying overskirts; available in fancy fabrics like embroidered lace (by Courreges, for $800) as well as lighter weight silk jersey (by Pucci, for $210), Fortrel and cotton (by Sportwhirl, for $35) and Arnel knit (by Loomtogs, for $36), they bloom with checks and flowers, glitter with pearls and gold, or stand out like the moon, all white and stark...