Word: saris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abounds in landscaped lawns, red and yellow hibiscus, shower trees and coconut palms. Semicircled by the greenery of Manoa Valley's bordering volcanic mountains, the campus overlooks Honolulu, Waikiki Beach and Mamala Bay. Student dress is almost as colorful as the sunsets. An Indian girl in a scarlet sari strolls with a Chinese girl in sneakers and blue jeans. Caucasian girls in muumuus and poi pounders (an above-knee muumuu with long, tight pants) vie for attention with others in Polynesian prints and Bermuda shorts. The motto on the university gates is fitting: "Above all nations is humanity...
...Invalid Tricycle Foundation of Wales (for crippled miners). Wife Liz had a different challenge. For a Lido opening in Paris, the invitations specified evening pajamas, and half the haut monde came in lace or sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks to work," she sniffed, threw on her gold lame sari by Balenciaga, and discovered that in spite of being so old-gown, she rated Table Numero Un between two boulevardiers who could afford to clothe her in pure gold: Aristotle Onassis and Baron Guy de Rothschild...
...such a pilgrimage could not be. The Vatican, the Indian government, the relentless exigencies of the press, and even Air India foiled the Pope. The airline closed off part of the first-class compartment, provided a raven-haired stewardess in a striped silk sari, and painted the papal coat of arms on the plane. The Indians, as might have been foreseen, discouraged any extensive visits to the poor as an uncalled-for stress on the country's poverty. The Vatican sent along cardinals and priests and supplied tapes of Handel and Vivaldi to be played on the plane. Photographers...
...SARI BIRO San Francisco...
INDIA. Water cascades down the exterior of the glass pavilion, a quote from Gandhi is carved in pink marble, and sari-clad girls welcome the visitor to view such Indian art objects as the palace doors of Rajasthan, Hindu temple hangings, Buddha sculptures and miniature paintings...