Word: maxie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coaches may shudder at some of the lifestyles, but most take it in stride -though Cornerback Earsell Mackbee claims that he was cut from the Minnesota Vikings this season for showing up one day in a red lace jumpsuit, a fake fur maxi vest and a slouch hat. "Freedom to express your own personality makes for a winning team," says the 49ers' Ken Willard. "It's the swinging feeling around the clubhouse. A feeling that they're them and I'm me." His teammate Gene Washington, who grooves on $350 Oscar de la Renta suits, deplores...
...return of the deposed champion. Streams of customized Cadillacs rolled up to the city's ancient Municipal Auditorium like chariots arriving for a Roman circus. Men in matching mink hats and coats and white knit jumpsuits vied for attention with glittering women in spangled gowns and beaded maxi coats. Diana Ross, looking supreme in a see-through blouse and a swept-wing hairdo she called "the liberated look," was upstaged by two chesty twins who bounced down the aisle in gold-sequined gowns cut to the navel. Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby provided some comic relief with a mock...
...Korean navy band belted out the bridal march from Lohengrin, 791 couples from all over the world filed into a huge indoor gym in the South Korean capital. The brides wore the traditional Korean maxi-length skirts and matching white chogori (blouses), and the men were dressed mainly in flannel suits. Resplendent on the platform in front of them stood Master Sun Myung Moon and his wife in golden robes and glistening crowns. As two thousand curious spectators looked on, Master Moon intoned: "Will you swear to love your spouse forever?" The 1,582 men and women responded: "Ye" (Korean...
...ebbing strength. "This year," predicted Robert Ricci, "is the year of the big change. Last year was bad for business because women hesitated to buy. There had been no decision. This year will be much better." The decision, of course, was to strike the mini-midi-maxi declension from the fashion texts. Now, as far as Paris is concerned, there are to be only two kinds of hemlines: long and longer. Perhaps. But women busy liberating themselves from so many other ukases may not go along meekly on this...
...Consider this recent episode at Grand Bahama's Britannia pub, where barmaids fetchingly wear maxi-miniskirts fashioned from the Union Jack...