Word: modishly
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...water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish new psychic treatment: tank therapy...
...band!" he shouted from a concert stage last year. Now, instead of yelling at the audience, he jumps down into the crowd, Springsteen style, and romps among them. Like our old friend Paul Free, he has also had his shoulder-length hair shaped into some thing more modish, just right for the group's appearances on the Dinah Shore show and their own celebrity golf tournament. The Doobies' management has already booked the boys into Las Vegas...
...Richer. Jump buffs point out that they can be worn to the office with a turtleneck sweater and later accoutered for evening by removing the sweater, unzipping to the cleavage and adding jewelry. Like blue jeans, jumpsuits came to fashion from the wharves and workshops of America-and became modish in Europe. It was after a visit to Paris last spring that Kal Ruttenstein, a Bloomingdale's executive, saw how Parisians were snapping them up. "It's a lot of look at a relatively little price," says Ruttenstein. "It's for the young or young-thinking woman...
...still provides one-third of the earnings of the whole store. The basic design has not changed in 21 years. "I keep thinking that one day it will look old-fashioned and passe," says Stutz, "but it doesn't." Customers there receive close but not suffocating attention from modish salespeople as they buy pheasant feather necklaces for $270 or silvery snakeskin-covered appointment books for $150. Actress Cicely Tyson, a regular customer, reportedly buys all her furs from Bendel's second-floor salon; and two years ago, former Beatle John Lennon grabbed up $10,000 worth of Christmas...
...libretto concerns a husband who becomes enamored of a swinging, unmarried friend of his wife's. Domesticity triumphs when the wife changes costumes, wigs and personalities to deflate the husband's romantic notions. Director Bliss Hebert wittily stages the action with an array of modish accouterments undreamed of by Schoenberg, including Visa cards and telephones with TV monitors; Maxine Willi Klein's sleek set looks like a sci-fi Better Homes and Gardens; and the cast, especially Soprano Mary Shearer as the wife, delivers a slyly spirited performance. Slight as it is, this is the kind...