Word: minked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part in Frank Capra's A Pocketful of Miracles, and in State Fair her dark brown hair showed up as a cornea-shattering shade of red. A star, she drove up to her old high school in a yellow Cadillac convertible and strolled through the halls in a mink coat. But four years later, the bottom fell out. Her managers, in her version of it, were merely exploiting her sex appeal-and ineptly. With puppylike trust, Ann-Margret did as she was told. At 25, after a descending spiral of bike operas and drive-in fillers...
This flurry of activity is fine for the art-loving ladies who now pick their way in mink coats on guided benefit studio tours among the truck-clogged streets and echoing lofts of SoHo. But it has done little for the artists and the small industries that really need space there. Rumbles have been heard from the city planning commission...
...John Tunney, Ed Sullivan, Andy Williams, Ethel Kennedy, Bullfighter El Cordobes, Frank Sinatra, Dick Cavett, Danny Kaye, Bill Cosby, David Frost, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Burt Bacharach-to cite a few. Then there were the costumes, which ranged from brocaded tuxedos and sequined capes to tangerine jumpsuits and mink-trimmed robes. Salvador Dali had one look at the proceedings and pronounced them "surrealistic...
...variety once reserved for' covering grand pianos). Smart young matrons favor practical, less voluminous versions, often reversible and generally hooded. Pacesetters turn out in everything from Revillon's full-length black fox trimmed with chicken feathers and Adolfo's butterfly-wing silk kimono to the all-mink tent that Actress Elsa Martinelli wore over a sequined bathing suit at a Paris play opening. French, Italian and American designers practically all featured winter-weight capes last fall: those sent down the runways for spring are cut in breezy chiffon, ordinary denim and even terry cloth...
...worth more than the interest that they would otherwise receive. Still, the gift promotion has the appearance of a bargain. So far the Cadillac offer has attracted two depositors, and 75 others have responded to the lure of a color-TV set. One woman is being measured for a mink coat...