Word: midi
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...sloppy romantic interlude which ends in no good for one more tough American broad. Although the death watch exploits Ryan O'Neal as the rebellious scion with a lump in his throat, the real focus of this 1940 star-posturing is Ali McGraw. (Had she worn the midi, it would have been a little too ludicrous...
Expensive Midi. The downtown merchants-who have to cope with the crime, grime and transport snarls of the central city-are being hurt worst. There are some exceptions; for example, Chicago's Marshall Field and San Francisco's I. Magnin are doing well. On the other hand, in the twelve months ended last August, retail sales in downtown Cleveland plunged 23%; they fell 12% in downtown Philadelphia, 10% in Los Angeles, Baltimore and Boston...
...street's leading stores made stabs at enlivening their fashions and sprucing up their interiors. The results, often as unsatisfactory as a dowager in a miniskirt, alienated older customers and failed to win back the young from the flashy boutiques. The quick plunge into the unpopular midi fashions was particularly punishing...
...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...