Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ahead of last year. What won over the buyers, said Felix Lilienthal Jr. of Felix Lilienthal & Co., Inc., big independent resident buying house (150 accounts, $800 million a year in purchases), was the eminent "wearability, salability and promotability" of this year's fashions. Whatever her age or shape, the customer this year will find clothes that fit and become her. Said Lilienthal: "The new fashions will not make headlines, but they will make dollars...
Excellent Show. The gap was so small (compared with $110 million in April) that it could actually be written off as the .difference in accounting methods used for imports and exports. Considering Britain's invisible exports in the shape of earnings from shipping, banking and insurance overseas, British economists feel that their balance of payments actually shows a surplus. Said jubilant Sir David Eccles, president of the British Board of Trade: "An excellent show. This is due to the vigorous search for markets abroad which our businessmen made when home trade was not so good. Now they will...
...always there is Rome itself, giving shape and glory to what might otherwise be a formless fantasy. When the gates of the city finally close behind Jimmy as on a condemned playground, the picaresque hero carries with him two bittersweet truths: youth is short and Rome is eternal...
...names make news (as the old saying goes), it is people who shape the news. Last week among all the thousands of news stories that were told around the world, there were three that owed their origin and their drama to their central personality...
Radiant Centers. Today's sculptors can be roughly divided into two categories: those who take their clues from the materials they are working and the others who start with an image, then shape materials to embody their vision. The richly decorative materials-first approach is handsomely demonstrated in one whole red-walled gallery at the museum's show. There Italian-born Harry Bertoia's Wall Piece ($750) melds steel, bronze and phosphor into an elegant decoration. Bertoia makes no claim for it beyond stating he considers it "a few squares arranged in a quiet way around...