Word: previewers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After flirting tentatively with le peuple and their street fashions, after enthusiastically showcasing medium-priced looks for the boutiques, the Continent's top couturiers finally seem to have solved their identity crisis-solidly in favor of privilege and high prices. As the preview season reached its peak in Paris and Rome last week, designer after designer produced winter collections clearly intended for the monied private customer who can afford to come in out of the cold-or stay in it -wearing the best. Fabrics for the look of "sportive de luxe," as Women's Wear Daily approvingly named...
...showing tones that range from golden beige ("oat") through bottle green. Those without fur collars were finished off with a fringed wool challis square folded in a triangle around the neck. Valentino's most famous client, Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis, visited Rome before the collection had been completed for preview; she ordered some clothes from drawings and will see the full embodiment next month in New York...
...Eisenhower Administration encouraged Diem to cancel the '56 election, in the belief that a democratic election would bring communists to power throughout Vietnam, and so end democracy there once and for all. It was a curious preview of later Administration reasoning: cancelling elections to protect democracy smacks of destroying villages in order to save them. But the confusion was inevitable, given that the preservation of political democracy and the suppression of economic democracy was a basic aim of American foreign policy. Political democracy without economic democracy was impossible in Vietnam. The communist peasants out-numbered the liberal middle-class...
Dean met with the staff last week, and committee officials and other sources provided this preview of what, in fact, Dean will say. Among other things Dean will claim...
...four-oared shells lined up to race a Huskie oarsman yelled across the water to a Northeastern pair passing by. "Hey Sam," he shouted, "stick around for the preview of the Sprints." The Northeastern four won that race; Saturday may be different...