Word: modishly
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There are a few bright daubs in the gray austerity. Last week American introduced modish new outfits for its stewardesses; aiming to please all tastes, the uniforms include mini and midi skirts as well as shorts. Still, all the cost shaving, plus improved travel prospects for spring, are making the carriers' long-depressed stocks increasingly attractive. One day last week seven of the 15 most actively traded issues on the Big Board were airlines, and all seven posted gains...
...Freeman & Son of Philadelphia, has persuaded the President to wear his somber blue and gray corporate suits with a slightly (⅝ in.) wider lapel. Before his European trip last fall, the President bought four new suits (average price: $275). Nixon was even gently talked into a couple of reticently modish double-breasted suits, the first he has worn since his congressional days. "He's a person who doesn't like to be told what to wear, no matter what the fashions are," says Rossi. "We'll say, They're wearing 4-in. lapels...
...amplified guitars and the racketing thump of a rock beat. What follows this seemingly incongruous prelude is a swirling, eye-and ear-catching panoply of ballet maneuvers, from chastely classic lifts to Broadway shuffles, set to an eclectic score (by Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge) that blends the modish and the modal. The climax is a joyous, foot-stamping, yet thoroughly unblasphemous rock version of the Ite, missa est chant that ends the Latin Mass. At the diminuendo finale, the dancers lay rows of votive lights across the stage and drift silently, monkishly, into the wings...
...next sequence, though rather narrative and naturalistic, continues to mingle objects and images in such a way that every object demands to be read as if it were a statement. Elio Petri, the director, staged this scene in a studio furnished in modish plastic furniture and embellished with useless toys, so that the sequence builds very cleverly on the aesthetic presumptions of pop art: each object, even pieces of furniture, is a statement the way a painting is a statement: it has been designed and it signifies. Vanessa Redgrave, not quite fresh from her role as one of the objects...
...P.F.L.P.'s almond-eyed, two-time skyjacker, is a case in point. When Leila and an accomplice attempted to seize an El Al 707 in September, they were stopped cold by gunfire from El Al guards (Leila's companion was killed). Now back in Beirut, where she cuts a modish figure in floppy hats and close-fitting slacks, Leila is downright indignant about the El Al security men. "They had no sense of responsibility," she complained to TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott last week. "Bullets were flying all over the cabin. They were completely ruthless...