Word: midi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands than a sheet of blank paper," remarked the English artist and critic Michael Ayrton, "and this condition promotes the problems with which the legendary Midas had to contend." Picasso can get anything by drawing for it. Shortly after World War II, he acquired one of his Midi villas, now relinquished, by exchanging it for a set of lithographs. His own collection of Picassos, several hundred oils (not counting his sculpture, much of which he has kept, his collection of work by other artists and the thousands of drawings that lie in bales throughout the rooms of Mougins, Vauvenargues...
This fall, American women are destined for crisply cut blazers, tailored and pleated skirts, Argyle sweaters, traditional tweeds, meltons and flannels. Colors will be bright and clear. After the mini-midi debacle of last year, hemlines will generally hover cautiously around the knee...
AVIATION A U.S. Superjet for Japan? U.S. aircraft makers have been about as hopeful of selling their latest sky designs as dress manufacturers have been about getting rid of their midi stockpiles. Boeing's bid to usher the nation into the supersonic age, after all, was soundly rebuffed by the Senate, and the fate of Lockheed's L-1011 jet still hangs precariously in the Congress. Yet last week ailing Boeing, which has laid off more than 90,000 workers in the past three years, became the heavy favorite to develop a new line of jumbo aircraft...
...waistline measures a reedy 24 inches. Nonetheless, her clothes will accommodate an extra foot or more of girth. There are gaucho pants and bathing suits ($21), jumpsuits, dirndl dresses ($42) and hot pants ($10), all with expandable waists. Actress Mia Farrow, prior to twins, picked up the Victorian midi, Mrs. Dustin Hoffman bought the fringed suede mini, and Singer Diana Ross, Supremely pregnant, has toted home $700 worth of Madonnas...
...Soul Fashions that puts models aping 7 world famous revolutions, from "Geronimo and the Indian Revolution" to "Carrie Nation and the Revolution for Prohibition," in poor-boy sweaters, mock ammunition belts and knickers? And how do you claim that a cover story on Fashion Fascism, The Politics of the Midi, is any more anti-Establishment than Time magazine's cover attack on John Fairchild of Women's Wear Daily? What about the failure to produce writing and reportage worthy of the movement? (For Rags often follows the meandering, point-of-viewless perspective of Rolling Stone's sprawling, directionless Altamonte coverage...