Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conservatism. Some designers are trying to win both sides of the argument. In addition to his bikinis, Blass, for instance, offers a one-piece suit with a high-rise belt attached just under the bosom to give a modified Empire look. He has also experimented with a belted suit that laces loosely down the front. This one anticipates another coming fashion trend-to leather. It is made out of a new material that looks like leather, "breathes" like leather, but can get wet all over. "It's fantastic," he says, "water rolls right off it." Just like human skin...
Faint Hopes. Throughout the operation, life signs?pulse, blood pressure and, later, breathing?gave rise to limited optimism among many who heard the terse bulletins issued from the hospital. The fact that he had been conscious (he had reportedly asked not to be moved immediately after the shooting) was also faintly hopeful...
...presents her as a consumer product, he does so with considerable tenderness, and over the years Wesselmann has tended to move even closer to his subject. Early paintings depict her in full. Later (often shaped) canvases zero in on specific portions of the anatomy: feet that rise like mountains above the seashore, mouths dragging at enormous cigarettes, huge breast. Yet, explicit though the images are, Wesselmann's nudes are not pornographic. They are too remote for that, too glazed, too impersonal. They could be legendary divorcees, airline stewardesses or Candys who spend all lay on the beach...
...steel price rise, by increasing costs for automakers and other durable-goods manufacturers, would also aggravate the very inflation that the union is using as a bargaining point. On the other hand, a prolonged strike would both slow down the economy and hinder the Viet Nam war effort. In view of that, it is possible that Washington may once again intervene in steel negotiations when the deadline approaches. Meanwhile, says Chief Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, a U.S. Steel executive vice president, "I see very, very serious and difficult problems ahead...
...name-and thousands were burned when the stock market collapsed in 1962. Many brokers contend that the average caliber of companies bringing out stock this year runs considerably higher. Still, there are worries. In a "thin market," the price of speculative securities can plunge as swiftly as it can rise...