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For informal abandon give yourself to a vivid shirt knotted at the high waist. Cover a bare midriff with tiny checkers of color in cumberbun style. Slacks are passe, but pedal pushers of black or red, and longer too, will find you bizzaire but in taste. Wear sandals of plain...

Author: By George S. Abrams, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: Alcohol Craze Upsets F allFashions With Chic 'Dress to Drink' Spree | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

The poetry which appears in this issue of the Advocate makes absolutely no contribution towards the achieving of anything, accept perhaps further disorder. John Ciardi contributes some fairly effective images in the first verses of his "Midnight on a Side Street." The only possible excuse for the best of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 10/7/1950 | See Source »

Readers who find false beards passe may as well pass up The Dukays, even though the publishers are boosting it as their "major book for the spring of 1949," and Author Lajos Zilahy as "Hungary's foremost novelist." The Dukays was a Hungarian bestseller in 1947; probably nothing but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girls in Goulash | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

The parade halted. Leaders indignantly shouted back to their followers, "Les flics ne veulent pas qu'on passe!" (The cops won't let us pass.) The answer was a sullen rumble.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Counterpoint | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

At this point Colonel Dymshitz began to sweat. But the worst was yet to come. Lasky pitied the writers of the Soviet Union: "We know how soul-crushing it is to work and write when behind us stands a political censor and behind him stands the police. Think of how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: Thank You, Thank You! | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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