Word: longish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stars. Nearly all of the 800-plus designers who displayed their wares, including such stars as St. Laurent, Angelo Tarlazzi and Michelle Bruyere, had variations on the skirt-and-sweater theme. The look includes hip-length cardigans, frequently worn over pullovers. Skirts are longish, too, starting at the knee and working all the way down to the ankle. Many billow like peasant dresses. Fashion phrasemakers, with considerable wit, call them "BigSkirts...
Fifth, we have gotten in touch with various political people, but it has not been in the nature of "offering our advice." We have received a number of offers of help, in fact. One of our primary goals is to put together a longish booklet, giving the facts about space and its historical importance -- something we can't do in a 1-page handout...
...first program of the series opens with a scene of Gilbert standing on a hill overlooking Santa Barbara with the wind ruffling his longish hair and rustling the microphone. "I didn't set out to prove anything," says Gilbert. "I had faith that if we stayed with the family long enough, certain universals would surface." Gilbert has misplaced his faith, unfortunately. The universals do not emerge because the context of his family's life is never fully established. Why is the American Dream disintegrating? Gilbert says that the Louds are "neither typical nor average--no family is." The Louds...
What Senator William Proxmire is doing the hard way with his hair transplants, Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox has accomplished in one fell swoop. Returning to the state senate after a longish lunch hour, a new-look Maddox explained: "Sorry I'm late-I had to stop and get my new hair." Later, looking vaguely avuncular in his sandy gray toupee, he proclaimed himself a pacesetter. "You remember when I rode backwards on my bicycle-now everybody is buying bicycles," he observed. "You just watch, pretty soon everybody will be buying hairpieces...
...figure of immense vitality as well as subtlety, working at a pace that might have killed a young Hemingway. He wrote The Ambassadors in eight months, and his other two masterpieces, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, at the rate of one a year. His longish (and perhaps best) short story, The Beast in the Jungle, seems to have been composed in three days...