Word: ostrichized
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...grand entrance. Typically, he committed himself to no single shape, cavalierly offering up silhouettes ranging from tentlike A-lines to baggy harem skirts. What interests Sarmi is fabric. There were amethyst, ruby and emerald velvets, cloth-of-gold studded with glass "jewels," acres of feathery chiffon, columns of ostrich plumes, bands of chinchilla, and bodices of shimmering bugles and bangles...
...wretched war with a ruthless enemy. because the news was bad, there were many people who for varying reasons did not want it exposed. Yet an American reporter must believe, if he believes nothing else, that the United States has never sur- vived in times of crisis by playing ostrich. Too much policy and too deep a commitment had already been made in Vietnam on the basis of too little factual information...
Magnificent Deduction. Launching and outfitting any new museum involves prodigious effort. The old county museum was an attic for archaeology and science as well as art. "It was a historical anomaly," says Director Brown, "really a 16th century Wunderkammer, with everything but a unicorn's horn and an ostrich egg." Stutz Bearcats, dinosaur tails and mineral collections clamored for attention with the art works...
...outfitted ladies showed a tendency to linger near the pictures that best harmonized with their clothes. Collector Barbara Jakobson flitted among the black and white opticals, seeming to appear and disappear in a skin-tight jump suit with ostrich-feather cuffs under a "cage" of black chiffon, latticed with black velvet. Another black and white effect, frequently mistaken for a painting when it was standing still, was the calfskin coat by Furrier Jacques Kaplan, stenciled by Op Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz in a dotty pattern that focused disturbingly on Mrs. Lee Lombard's pretty kidneys...
...Your cover picture of General Westmoreland makes him look like an ostrich...