Word: paraphernalia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cluttered with Buñuel's standard paraphernalia of stigmata, deformity, mud and fire, The Milky Way offers no unified vision, no system of thought or style. The lack of cohesion is deliberate, claims Buñuel: "Mystery is the essential element of every work of art. If a work of art is clear, then my interest in it ends...
...Washington we entered Friday morning loomed grey and chill. To our bleary eyes, that was only fitting. Yet, as we drove along, our spirits began to pick up; and by the time we reached midtown. we were exulting. The streets were crawling with freaks! Painted cars, beads, all the paraphernalia; smiles, laughter, peace signs, camaraderie. Even the March of Death, staggered and otherwise unimpressive at that hour, was vibrating with our kind of people. As Ferlinghetti might say, the air was alive with love. How could anything go wrong...
...classroom, used for training sessions and daily peptalks, was garishly adorned with morale-boosting sales paraphernalia. A huge football player charged at us novice salesmen from a sales poster. A sign reading "Carnaby Street," Union Jacks, and a map of London conspired to spur salesmen to that 110 per cent effort-and a trip to London for the nation's leading salesmen. Lucky supersalesmen who had earned trips in previous years smiled fixedly from the walls...
There, in his cowboy paraphernalia, he is as out of place as a stallion in a park ing lot. The demon lover swaggers before a mirror; a clown peers back...
...Paraphernalia's Guy Paulin is more socially demanding; in his clothes, he wants to see a girl "of typical good family, a little hollow-chested. She can wear a slightly vulgar dress since she exhales good family through every pore of her body." For Designer Leo Narducci, it is not so much a specific size or class of woman who can wear his clothes as it is a certain type, one who "is sure of herself, who thinks of sex more openly. If a guy isn't agreeable to her, she'll find someone else...