Word: scarf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every woman knows how the scarf-makers tried. They snipped everything from chiffon to cotton to sensuous silk into triangles, trapezoids and squares. Givenchy and Balenciaga dappled the shapes with abstract slashes; Emilio Pucci colored them with wildly vibrant designs that looked like stained glass; lesser lights tried everything from polka dots to reproductions of Botticelli paintings. But even when the Mona Lisa was pulled flat over the hair and reefed under the chin, the result was strictly Ellis Island-that flattopped look, with a tail either drooping forlornly at half-mast or sticking out behind like the flight deck...
...hope of getting crinkles to wave, waves to coil, coils to stand up and be counted. Fortunately, the means to curly ends-bobby pins, hairpins, miniature rollers or just plain rags-could be easily camouflaged around the house. In public, the works could be concealed under a snood or scarf, even fitted accommodatingly under a bathing cap. Most important, the head that hit the pillow (encompassed though it was in scrap metal) never had to worry about going to sleep: the weight of a million bobby pins, in fact, often proved a sort of sedative...
...miles north of Saigon plastered a major guerrilla staging and communications center at Vinhlinh, five miles north of the 17th parallel. Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself was grazed by shrapnel. Despite heavy ground fire, only one plane was lost; the pilot was rescued...
Giraudoux has not constructed characters with well defined personalities. Each character is circumscribed by an idea fixe. Aurelie always searches for her lost bon scarf. The president constantly seeks money and power. The third dimension of personality must be supplied by the cast, and the Charles's actors, with no exceptions, build their roles with imagination and humor...
...boys prowl for bugs. A sexy bug is also a tough (or tuff), tough head, tough fox or stone fox. If the boy is a blip, he is said to be whipped by an ugly stick. But if boy and girl are stoked about each other, they mouse or scarf, which is the same as playing huggy-bear, smacky lips, smash-mouth and kissy face...