Word: muumuus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever a dull moment threatens, Hill rummages around in Michener's bottomless bag of epic tricks and comes up with windstorms, conflagrations, eruptions, street fights, breech births, shark attacks, luaus, lava-lavas and assorted shouts and muumuus-not to mention a large number of young wahines who appear in a state of nature and fill the giant screen with impressive outcroppings of what Hawaiians call papaia. What's more, the principals play with aplomb. Julie Andrews brings both sensuality and sensibility to a role that might easily have wallowed in sweetness and light. And Von Sydow is superb...
...greenery of Manoa Valley's bordering volcanic mountains, the campus overlooks Honolulu, Waikiki Beach and Mamala Bay. Student dress is almost as colorful as the sunsets. An Indian girl in a scarlet sari strolls with a Chinese girl in sneakers and blue jeans. Caucasian girls in muumuus and poi pounders (an above-knee muumuu with long, tight pants) vie for attention with others in Polynesian prints and Bermuda shorts. The motto on the university gates is fitting: "Above all nations is humanity...
...Muumuus if Necessary. Actually, reports an old friend and Florida neighbor of the Kennedys who is something of a clotheshorse herself, "Jackie has a completely American concept of fashion understatement. She wears very little jewelry. She buys very practically. She plans her wardrobe as a whole. In the fall and spring, she will buy one wonderful suit. She has never worn mink. She wears a wool coat over a suit or dress for lunch or dinners. She has one or two evening dresses-classic and simple and terribly chic, not startling." In the aftermath of the battle of the garment...