Word: norma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most major suitmakers are in the covered-up swim. Designers Adrienne Vittadini and Randolph Duke are among those who have swirled out skirted suits, while Norma Kamali recalls the 1940s with long-line swimwear featuring elegant drapery. Former Hollywood star Esther Williams has lent her name to a line of classic one-piece suits reminiscent of her costumes in films like Neptune's Daughter. Using a bit of verbal camouflage, Body Glove Apparel, a California outfit, says its line is "cut for the Midwestern frame," and Sandcastle is doing well with a collection intended to "minimize common figure problems like...
Last week both sides agreed to submit to federal arbitration, though the union was not happy about its prospects. Appalachians are a stubborn breed. The strikers perversely seem to enjoy getting tossed into the slammer. Speaking for many last week, Norma Salyer, a miner's wife from Dante, boasted, "I'm ready. I've got my lipstick and my chewing gum right here to take with me to jail...
...think Harvard's loss to Yale had a big effect on today's match," Brown Coach Norma Taylor said. "They came out and blistered us in doubles...
...produce primarily to enhance eye appeal by keeping fruits unblemished longer. Alar, for example, is sprayed on apples mainly to allow them to ripen slowly. Some consumers have begun to reject the perfect look. "I do not want food that has been overly sprayed, waxed or tampered with," declares Norma Quintana of Napa Valley, Calif. "If things look too manicured, I get a little wary...
...groups, as for individuals, taking a new name is a quintessential American act, a supreme gesture of self-creation in the land where Norma Jean Baker became Marilyn Monroe, homosexuals became gays, and Esso became Exxon. But for many blacks, the choice of a word by which others will know them has a special significance. During their centuries of bondage, slaves had names that were often chosen by their masters. Booker T. Washington wrote in his autobiography Up from Slavery that there was one point on which former slaves were generally agreed: "that they must change their names." This process...