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...Society declare a state of emergency. Dior's Marc Bohan must have robbed every hen house and bird cage on the Continent. He whipped up topcoats of grouse, full-length evening coats of grackle, blouses of speckled hen feathers and wove materials half in tweed and half in pin feathers...
Happy Days is the kind you can read for hours at either to be impressed by ett's superbly concentrate or simply for the mental of correlating the repeated --trying to pin instance, the ambiguous the past ("the old style, classics," and her quotation holding Winnie's demi...
...that the landing gear would not lower automatically. Now down to an altitude of only 700 ft., Kimes made a wide, climbing circle while Engineer Robertson and Second Officer Webb cranked the wheels down manually. Then Robertson crawled down through a hatch in the cockpit floor to insert a pin in the nose wheel to guard against its collapsing-a required procedure when hydraulic pressure fails...
...corn pone, but a well-mannered young fellow from Richmond, with long brown hair floating down both sides of a pale, round face that looks more like 24 than 34. This is a Wolfe in chic's clothing: off-white suit, lemon-colored tie, brown-and-white pin-stripe shirt with French cuffs, wine-colored silk handkerchief puffing out of the jacket pocket-when he gets dressed up, in short, he looks like a well-polished Pierce-Arrow...
...best, this earnest little melodrama resembles a bantam version of The Longest Day. Again the pin-up role is assigned to Irina Demick, described unpersuasively as "a girl who blows up bridges" for the French Resistance. When the Allies throng ashore, Irina and a doughty band of villagers who have sallied forth as a welcoming committee are being held hostage by the Germans. The G.I.s who liberate them include wry-smiling Sergeant Cliff Robertson and the inevitable New York Jewish joker (Red Buttons) assigned to all units for comedy relief. Since the village is under siege, Cliff is ordered...