Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davies, who renamed himself Justin de Villeneuve when he was an interior decorator, took his new-found charge to a hairdresser friend and had her shoulder-length blonde tresses snipped to boy's length-or the length that boys used to wear their hair. A photographer was called in, and the rest is pop-cult history-the modeling, the magazine covers, the international celebrity whirl. Twiggy was the image of the decade, and Justin de Villeneuve was something of a miracle maker. "I didn't know anything or anyone in the fashion business," he proudly recalls. "Everybody kept...
...cigarette in his mouth, wrote unnecessary the blackboard, and spent most of time reading from a book. Midway his reading a 6'6" giant burst noisily room, looked around, and dropped chair. The tail of his coat caught on back of the chair as he sat down, above shoulder level when he finally a comfortable position. An aisle in front , a woman perched an unlit extralong cigarette in her as if to imitate the seminar smokers greeted the instructor's about Catholic laymen and the moralizing...
...apparel, the necktie wins in a walk. At best, it adds a modest splash of color to the Adam's apple; at worst, it makes a wearer appear to have been the recent victim of a mad tracheotomist. But with the coming of high-heeled shoes and shoulder purses for men, it seemed impossible that the ladies would not strike back. Now they have: in the gilded salons of Manhattan, London and Paris, the flouncy belles of yesteryear are turning out in man-tailored jackets, fly-front trousers and-saddest of all-the plebeian cravat...
...doesn't walk onstage. She insinuates herself. Rotary-drive hips, and fingers that were probably snapping out rhythms in the cradle. Overstuffed bosom beneath a Pucci dress, $450 shoulder-length brown wig, and eyelashes long enough to rake a lawn with. She coolly surveys the scene and lets fly with a sassafras falsetto: "Whoooo-eeeee! Watch out, honey! Don't you touch me! Don't you ever touch me!" Or: "When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not." Or her trademark: "What you see is what...
...opening game of the season. Quarterback John Stofa broke his leg, and Griese was sent in. Despite an injured shoulder, he helped Miami win three of its last five games while throwing 122 consecutive passes without an interception. Meshing well with meticulous Don Shula, who became the Dolphins' head coach last season, Griese led the Dolphins to the A.F.C. play-offs last year and into the Super Bowl this year...