Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Givenchy's look is sporty but soft, straight but supple. "I think we must all simplify," he says. "There is a minimum of construction, and the tops and sleeves fit like skin." Indeed, a few of his slinky evening clothes mold the body almost as closely as Cardin's, but with greater subtlety. Givenchy's basic sweater dresses hug the body to the hipline, then end in a shirred skirt; many have turtlenecks, which he finds "much more today" than decolletés. Among the last to design trousers, Givenchy showed pants superbly tailored in fine wools...
Alexander seemed a good catch for many reasons. His maternal grandfather, Alexander Koryzis, was Premier of Greece when the Nazis invaded in 1941. His father is not only a self-made millionaire in the buccaneer Onassis mold, but also a former professor of law at the Athens Graduate School of Economics and Business Science. Alexander, an avid collector of antique Rolls-Royces, is a shrewd businessman who graduated from Zurich University with an honors degree in mechanical engineering. Regarded as a forceful, ambitious pragmatist by his business associates, he developed his family's ultramodern shipbuilding facilities at Eleusis. "Christina...
...stereotype, so button-down-collared that it hurts to read about it. It is central to his intent in writing CIA Diary that Agee tells us that he was one of the countless college graduates that were "Made in America" all stamped out of the same white, suburban liberal mold. This background is important to Agee not only because he wants to tell us what he did as a CIA agent in Latin America; he also wants us to understand why he did it and to agree with him that trees grown on American soil must produce rotten fruit...
Each of Calvino's parables comes from a single mold, and so do each of Marco Polo's cities. As the catalogue progresses, anachronisms begin to creep into the explorer's narrative, and his empire begins to expand outward in time as well as space. Kublai Kahn discovers this...
...operations. The new president: Howard C. Kauffmann, 52, a senior vice president (one of five), who has been running Exxon's operations in Europe and Latin America for most of the past ten years. One Exxon executive, who knows them both, describes them as "cast in the same mold-hard businessmen, not extraverted, used to tough decisions." More than at most giant corporations, however, the lines of power at Exxon tend to lead directly to the chairman's office, and there Garvin should feel at ease. Says one of his subordinates: "He fastens those blue eyes...