Word: peakedness
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Avant-garde French moviemakers study Hollywood directors, who return the compliment. Basic rock 'n' roll, formed in the U.S., peaked in England with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who proceeded to influence U.S. music. The French invented the discothèque, but the discaīre at...
"If this activity continues," said Monte Gordon, research vice president of Bache & Co., "we will go through 1000 like a hot knife through butter." Gordon's exuberant prediction was based on a significant shift in market activity. The New York Stock Exchange in 1965 traded a record 1.6 billion...
Sense of Mission. Actual helicopter work starts at Wolters with an elementary 16-week course, after which the trainees-who must wear their peaked caps backwards until their first solo-are ready for an advanced 16-week course at Rucker. There they study and practice gunnery, formation flight, night operations...
Escaping History? The Chinese merchants of the district had little connection with the Communists, but in reprisal to Communist brutality, Moslem and Christian youths burned more than 200 Chinese homes. As a result of the terror, usually bustling Solo, Boyolali and Klaten are anemic ghost towns. On the highway from...
For more formal wear, he has a backless calfskin evening dress stenciled to look like giraffe, a floor-length, tent-shaped Mongolian lamb coat that, with peaked hood attached, exposes only the eyes, and a white broadtail wedding dress with a ten-foot train. His showstopper is a black broadtail...