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Word: polkas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bees -painting their knees. Max Factor has already introduced painted designs, and other cosmetic houses have followed with everything from butterflies to zodiac signs. To be ready for the beach, Revlon has rushed onto the market waterproof paints that will withstand the surf. Other manufacturers are putting out vinyl polka dots, eyes, lips and flowers that can be pasted onto legs. There are even gaily colored decals for finger-and toenails. And just in case the message is not getting across, some teen-agers are stenciling at knee level even more legible messages to the eligible, reading "Looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Knee-High Style | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...exulted a Democratic legislator. "It's just like old times!" There in the capitol at Lansing, sporting his familiar green, polka-dot bow tie and pumping hands all around, stood G. Mennen Williams, looking for all the world as if Michigan were Mennenland again. Greyer and not quite so well packaged as when he left the governor ship in 1960 after six straight terms, gangling Soapy Williams had come back to campaign for the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Soapy & Some Others | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

Umbrellas are considered practical items, not usually objects for beautification. Some manufacturers have strewn them with flowers or polka dots, but the steady demand is for the ubiquitous black number-as exciting as an American cheese sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Esthetics for a Rainy Day | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Coin International, the leader of the new bond street, has achieved a 3-D effect by bonding a semitransparent Japanese print over a polka-dot crepe, thus allowing the polkas to show through the print. It is experimenting with scratchy materials such as fiber glass and burlap, which can be made wearable by bonding to a smooth inner skin. Also looming is a new rash of reversibles. Because bonding makes two-faced suits and coats possible, designers may soon be turning themselves inside out to give customers two costumes in one. Instead of going home to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Products: Stuck on Each Other | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...master's throne, Ormandy has all the moves of a maestro to the manner born. He receives visitors in his Bellevue-Stratford Hotel suite (where he has lived with his second wife for the past 15 years) attired in blue satin smoking jacket and matching polka-dot ascot. His still-accented English has taken on the authority of a Charles Boyer, his pronounced limp (an old hip injury aggravated by an automobile accident five years ago) appears less a handicap than a charming idiosyncrasy. True, he no longer tears around town like a dragster in his car, and after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Hungarian's Rhapsody | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

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