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...proved an almost impossible task. If any message emerged from the pandemonium, it was that Paris this year doesn't know where fashion is going. Skirts went from six inches above the knee (often worn with thigh-high boots) to mid-shin to ankle length (in some cases worn with frilly pantaloons). For color, black was back-hardly news to raise a cheer round the world. The results, wrote Gloria Emerson in the New York Times, "seem to be dresses for women who can't stop rereading old love letters." In the end, what Paris did have...
Lyon was leading Sochaux, 2-1, with three minutes to play in the French soccer championships, when a Lyon player thwunked the ball toward the sidelines. Up it sailed, completely out of the playing area and-zut alors!-landed smack in the presidential box. A pandemonium of plenipotentiaries was averted when Charles de Gaulle, 76, whipped the ball back toward the field, as thousands cheered. "It was good. It was good. I had a fine time," said le grand Charles later, presenting the winner's cup to Lyon and bussing each team captain on both cheeks...
...northern Maine. At one point, a defense lawyer mocked a Negro witness in the patronizing accents of Catfish Row. Objection by the prosecution. "Sustained," snapped Johnson. "Such remarks have no bearing on this case." At another point, a Government lawyer thudded to the floor in a dead faint. Pandemonium. Unfazed, Johnson intoned, "The other lawyers will carry on." They did. Conner was acquitted with all the fairness that can be wrung out of the jury system in Alabama...
There was pandemonium. The liberals, now assured a Percy victory, cheered. Most of the Nixon people walked out. "Harvard -- A pox on your house," one shouted angrily at the chair as he left...
...live forever without all of these: Guttural guttersnipes, memorable moments, bugs in Berkeley, battles of the books, booms with booms, pragmatic views of privacy, official obstructions, pandemonium in Pittsburgh, mathematic models, contracting clouds, anxious ages, gawking goons, immature Ymas, frenzied flamencos, period pieces, copy cats, project parties, sins and souls, damn dots, Hiltons on the Hudson, nasties for Noel, and Concurrent Cliches...