Word: shining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When they were child prodigies on radio, Zooey reminds her, Seymour always insisted that they shine their shoes "for the Fat Lady"?for all the lonely, unlovely, unseen but very real people "out there." Zooey's monologue soars: "Are" you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know?listen to me, now?don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah. buddy. It's Christ himself. Christ himself, buddy...
...example, if someone gave Manuel a common stone, he would hold it in his hand and look at it eagerly. In a few seconds, it would begin to shine and he would see that it was made of silver, then of gold, then of the most precious things imaginable, until the glitter died...
...frolic, passed word that neither of the top contenders, Rockefeller and Oregon's Mark Hatfield, should be considered. Bailey's reasoning: both Rockefeller and Hatfield are possibilities for places on the 1964 Republican national ticket, and Bailey did not want to give either of them any added shine. Democrats instead backed New Hampshire Republican Wesley Powell, who is no national threat to anyone...
...discovery is often in store. One Frenchman ordered a vintage red Burgundy with his dinner in a Denver restaurant, to his horror saw the waiter serve it chilled. Other native customs prove unsuspected traps. Male tourists accustomed to leaving their shoes outside their hotel room doors for a free shine, find them still there grubby and dusty in the morning-if they find them...
...tweed are big (often combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry Aldrich has combined crepes and satins with spangles of jet, gold...