Word: loafers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe Class of '68 leaves more high heel marks than loafer tracks in the Cambridge pavement, the cause may not have anything to do with the fashion industry but rather with the Admissions Committee...
...Blue-Blooded Aristocrat (cashmere sweater, flannel skirt, and a single strand of perfect pearls), the Walleyed Scholar (sloped shoulders, sensible shoes, and a pleated skirt left over from ice-hockey days), and the flocks of Amenable Parrots (kneesocks, muffler, a Peck & Peck raincoat, and a penny for every loafer). In their place these days is a sleekly feathered creature who swings her hair when she walks, wears no makeup, likes to go shopping in a suit that really has pants, and is apt to go dancing in a dress that suggests it be done cheek to cheek...
...Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance to a feast...
...Sagan's novel, Aimez-Vous Brahms. In it, Montand is required to pretend that he is a middle-aged trucking executive who, after five years as Ingrid's lover, prefers to spend his time with younger models. Ingrid has a lugubrious affair with Perkins, a spoiled young loafer, after he lures her to a concert with the mysteriously seductive incantation, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" There is a letup in the mooning when Perkins' exasperated boss asks him what the trouble is. "I just realized I've never been in love before," says the bemused one. "Well...
...Boston-born wife Olga. 54, did knee bends too, but usually quit before she hit 200 because, she admits, "I get to giggling over how we must look." Vienna-born Dr. Raab could not care less how he looks so long as he is warding off what he calls "loafer's heart." Dr. Raab never rides in a car or elevator if he can avoid it, wears out six or seven pairs of sole leathers a year. Loafer's heart, he believes, is sapping modern man's strength...