Word: poshli
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...times last week this xenophobia became violent. While Franco addressed the rally, gangs of rightist youths roamed Madrid's streets, roughing up foreigners. Windows were smashed at the posh Castellana Hotel, apparently for no reason other than that the main entrance was flanked by poles flying foreign flags. The U.S., which did not join in the international denunciations, was pointedly spared such treatment. One group of young Franco supporters paused during a march in Madrid's diplomatic quarter to shake hands with the machine-gun-toting Spanish policemen guarding the U.S. embassy...
...current Orient Express rolling last spring, concentrated at first on supple, sensuous clothes with a low hip line. The Japanese-born Kenzo noted that his styles "had affinities with the Chinese look, so we carried on the Chinese line." Among the first U.S. designers to introduce proletarian posh was Cinnamon Wear's Britta, whose workers' drop-shouldered jackets and raincoats flopped like wet rice when they came out last year; now the firm has trouble keeping up with demand...
...other themes for gallery summer shows is "From Our Collection." These shows are interesting because they reveal a gallery's basic activities. They're showing the artists that are affiliated with them Newbury Street galleries look like copies of posh uptown New York galleries Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnaband actually imports what the others aspire to imitate-they're the Boston representatives of Motherwell, Frankenthaler and others whose paintings they're exhibiting now Graphics 1 and 2 is showing equally famous contemporary graphics...
Bowling. Across the river and up towards Newton a little ways, on Soldiers Field Road, rests Sammy White's Brighton Bowl and Sammy's corresponding nightclub. This last, a posh spot often featuring such acts as Dick Doherty and the Majority, and the Shittons isn't much unless you're a devoted Swinging Single--the bowling alley, however, is a different story. It's not the best in Boston, but it's the best near Harvard, and it has 48 lanes, candlepins and tenpins, and a great many pinball machines. The best times to bowl there is on Friday nights...
...were war-whooping over the seating arrangements, a Lummi complained about the food, and Sacheen Littlefeather was not there. On top of everything, there was Old Thunder Cloud himself, Marlon Brando, chiding the socialite nation for deserting its red brother. This uncomfortable powwow took place last week on a posh Manhattan reservation where Brando was chairman of a gala starring Guest of Honor Ethel Kennedy and Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie to raise money for the impoverished U.S. Indians. Although some 300 guests paid up to $125 a ticket, the host could not even light...