Word: rope
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lively body skimmers now come in a limitless variety. Tigers and leopards have lent their spots, the venerable house of Hermes has adapted one of its signature rope prints, and designer Betsey Johnson, always on the lookout for a laugh, has fashioned a lifelike tattoo pattern. "The '60s were an inspirational bounce-off point," she notes, "short, modern, carefree, futuristic...
Born in London, Tandy knew early on what she wanted to be. Her father, who worked for a company that sold rope, died when she was twelve; yet despite hardships at home, her mother put together enough money to send her to an acting academy. Before the '20s were over she was acting in the West End, and in 1932 she married a colleague, the late Jack Hawkins. She appeared in several Broadway productions during the '30s but immigrated to the U.S. only in 1940, bringing her five-year-old daughter Susan with...
...whom, it seems, Moskowitz "revealed that the Cadillac might represent Hollywood glamour and the car culture of the West Coast, while the chopsticks could allude to a New Yorker's love of Chinese food." No kidding. This, you could say, looks like art history at the end of its rope...
...cavalryman, and I ride a flat saddle in boots and britches," he explains. "I come up to the stall, put a rope around my horse's neck, say, 'Come on, boy,' and lead him down to curry him and pick his hoofs...