Word: mods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl." So Nova took the problem to the French for frank answers. "Pluck the eyebrows," ordered Carita of Paris. "Mold the cheekbones . . . The eyes must be emphasized ... A little light in the hair . . . Mouth toned down . . . Transparent makeup." While Courrèges decked the Queen out in a modestly mod dress and jacket, Alexandre cropped her royal mane and Roger Vivier prescribed a pair of shoes that made up in sex appeal what they lost in good sense. Out of the imaginary exercise came a composite photo of a rather lovely Liz, but one that her subjects will probably never...
...with a top speed of 140 m.p.h. (he has two warnings on his license; the third means suspension). He spends a good deal of time with his children, who are living, breathing catalogues of where the young are at. Jane, 25, the wife of the owner of a mod boutique named Hung on You, favors garish antique clothes. For her wedding in a Roman Catholic church (Harlech's children were raised in his wife's religion, but he is an Anglican), which she planned without informing her parents until the day ahead, she chose a mid-calf Victorian...
Only one year ago, when designers began gingerly experimenting with hemlines lowered to midcalf (midi) or ankle (maxi). British Mod Designer Mary Quant, 34, who hiked up the first miniskirts, declared: "The miniskirt is here to stay." She says she still thinks so-although nearly half the 80 dresses she showed in London for next fall and winter were either midi or maxi. Quoth Quant: "It's not that the mini is out. It has such freedom of movement that I'll always use it. But why should I get hung up on one particular hemline...
...mod variant for cheek whiskers, the term sideboards is not that new. As early as 1890, it was used as a more graphic synonym for sideburns, named after the Civil War's Union General Ambrose Everett Burnside...
Least Inhibited. Far out, flashy, mod, mind-binding-that is dance today, the most inventive and least inhibited of the lively arts. Not even the new cinema has done as much as dance has to free itself from the rules, clichés and conventions of the past. In the regal prime of classical ballet, the dancer's craft was devoted to polishing and perfecting an established series of formalized gestures; choreography was as structured as a French garden. Today, however, a ballerina may have to arch on point in one sequence, boogaloo in another, then writhe...