Word: midi
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...last Emperor of Viet Nam, forced to abdicate after World War II, resurrected by the French in 1947 as puppet Emperor of Viet Nam, went into exile in 1954 to a more lotophagous life on the French Riviera. Now 59, his majesty lives in France's Midi, still enjoys a playboy's existence and occasionally issues political pronouncements that are widely ignored...
...walking wounded. Sandy Campbell is an ex-vice president of a mutual fund, shot down with the market. Jack Carmody is an ex-ad-agency ace, gone up in smoke with his TV cigarette accounts. Sam Deitsch is a dress manufacturer who laid it on the hemline for the midi. Harry Price is all the has-beens rolled into one: ex-movie star, ex-producer, ex-director - ex-box office...
...rather spotty in the Midwest. Partly as a result of the housing boom, which lifted sales of higher-priced, higher-profit items like appliances and home furnishings, durable goods sales are up a hefty 31% from November of last year. Clothing sales are also strong because the old mini-midi-maxi battle is over, opening the way for more apparel sales to women. More important, because double knits and other new fashions are catching on, men have been buying more clothes this fall than last...
...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...