Word: midi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time the Stoners, and similar ghetto troops in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, would have been alien to I the Boy Scouts' essentially white, midI die-class orientation. Today they epitomize the Boy Scouts of America's search for "relevance." Foremost on Scouting's list of reorganized priorities is reaching the ghetto youth, who traditionally rejected Scouting because it seemed just another white do-gooder organization or had little relation to his city existence...
...drabness, the dirt of our cities, and the grim, rather moving determination that something must be done about "the environment," a term that Americans are beginning to use as a joint synonym for nature and fate. You miss the girls: their long American legs struggling between mini and midi, while Women's Lib demands that their brains be finally respected, used and paid...
East Germany has condemned the midi as unsocialistic, but the women of Warsaw and Wroclaw have taken to it with a vengeance. In the shipyards of Gdansk and Szczecin, long hair pokes out from under the green hard hats of younger workers. All over Poland, Communist Party youth clubs reverberate to the latest rock sounds. To be sure, the scene in Cracow is vastly different from the one in California, and when a young Pole talks about turning on, he is probably referring to Radio Warsaw's Third Program, which features hits from the West. A quarter-century after...
...Downtown Warsaw, with its shiny new glass-and-steel buildings and wide sidewalks, exudes freshness and openness. The women of the major cities are completely attuned to Western fashion; Warsaw's Moda Polska fashion house sends its designers to Paris and London showings. Despite the advent of the midi, the mini is still in vogue. Even Warsaw policewomen wear minis, serving as reminders that the Polish leg can be as well turned as any in Europe. Student cabarets, such as Cracow's Piwnica Pod Baranami stage political satires lampooning government bureaucracy and inefficiency...
Desperate efforts to pull ahead were to no avail for Radcliffe, hampered as they were by their fashionable midi-length tunies...