Word: mode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of those heterogeneous spectacles known as "the Whitney Annual" exhibition, Feininger would be represented by one of a small minority of delighting, consoling canvases. There would be present, inevitably, the proponents of the mode, the counter-mode, the eclat-du-jour, whatever it might be. There would be a mass of realists, as they are called, "magic" or otherwise, and a crowd of abstractionists, enchanted or unenchanted in like fashion. There would be the hawkers of social reform, the psychological brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most...
Gruesome thought: What would Michelangelo have done with the Sistine frescoes had A.E. been the mode under Sixtus...
Dior's Designer Yves Saint-Laurent, who had helped set the mode with his trapeze look last winter, scored no such acclaim last week. While almost every other designer kept hemlines at the knees, Saint-Laurent lowered them some five inches to just 15 inches above the floor. No one else showed any signs of going along. In fact, one U.S. buyer who ordered some Dior dresses specified that they be delivered four inches shorter...
...student flashes the familiar gray card impatiently, as he passes the cash register. The delicate odors of apple pie a la mode, blended with hamburgers and some unknown form of potato, fuse together . . . . Monday, deep-dish apple-pie; Tuesday, apple-pie squares; Wednesday, apple-pie a la mode; Thursday...
...Prime Minister Clement Richard Attlee, since 1956 a member of the House of Lords (as the first Earl Attlee), described his move from the skirmishing of active politics: "It's like sipping champagne that has been on the table for five or six days," ungallantly proposed a mode of address for the first soon-to-be-appointed female members of Lords: "I should think they would be called Baron Ladies, and with considerable justice, I am sure...