Word: miniskirt
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Afterward, Maura Moynihan, in her leather miniskirt and cowboy boots, scrambles straightway to the top of an 8-ft.-high pedestal and works off her postperformance nervous energy by go-go dancing. Cornelia, all smiles, steps off the stage to be kissed and congratulated by her mother and brother, by Roberto, by Fashion Photographer Francesco Scavullo, by one of her agents and by half a dozen trim, middle-aged men in business suits who have been buzzing around...
...side of him is a elegant-looking woman, with flowing blonde hair. She wears a sparkling evening gown and white tennis shoes, bouncing up and down to the pounding beat. To the other side of the man is another woman who is banging away on a keyboard. Her red miniskirt and beehive hairdoo stand out. At the back of the stage are two more clean-cut-men--preppy almost, were it not for their New York intelligentsia slacks and shirts. One, head down, is slinging away on lead guitar, sending up the wall of sound that has enveloped the theatre...
...those optimists who believe that stock prices and hemlines rise simultaneously, the sidewalks and store windows will provide ample reason for rejoicing this spring. From Rome's Via Veneto to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, the skirt has moved above the knee. In fact, the miniskirt is back. At Filene's department store in Boston, where one-fourth of all higher-priced junior sales are now minis, Buyer Ann Freedberg exults, "They look right. The timing is right." At the young women's department of Galeries Lafayette, the big Parisian department store, minis are this season...
...boxy '60s style. "Flippy" is the word used by some skirt watchers. Says New York's Cuban-born designer Adolfo: "The old minis looked like clothes that had been chopped off at the bottom. Now they are different, looser." Adds Milan's Giorgio Armani: "The new miniskirt is not stiff and straight but soft, fitted at the hips and gathered for a short volume effect. It is also a natural evolution toward femininity after the dizzying circus of pants, knickers, Bermudas, gauchos and Zouaves." Valentino, the dean of Italian designers, argues that "women feel the need...
Nearly every businessman believes that new corporate conglomerates went out with the miniskirt. Not Raymond Mason. Says the 53-year-old chairman of the Charter Co., who has hitched together an unlikely troika of oil, insurance and communications enterprises into the 74th firm on the FORTUNE 500 list: "You get safer by getting bigger...