Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliffite" in the class of '07 remembers social tensions relaxing to the point where girls could walk down to the Square, "providing they wore hats and gloves, held their skirt off the sidewalk, and had all their shoebuttons buttoned." Sometimes a very brave girl might "sit on a bench in the Commons for a while. This way she might see Harvard undergraduates from time to time, but speaking to them was of course unheard...
...first act she is positively embarrassing, her diction sloppy and her affected gestures worse. But with the "mad scene," her acting undergoes as sharp a transformation as her appearance. She comes onstage with eyes bloodshot, voice quavering and she throws herself upon Horatio, unbuttoning her blouse, pulling up her skirt, then writhing on the stage she gives vent to the sexual impulses her father had ordered her to chain up. It is a powerful...
...Blake himself points out, these remedies only skirt the main issue: the conflict between traditional American goals and the preservation and creation of natural and man-made beauty. The drive for profits, the trend toward specialization and the urge to see only short-range problems with short-range consequences have conditioned us not to appreciate beauty but to worship expediency and the dollar. These characteristics, Blake implies throughout, are responsible for mass-produced suburbs and the wholesale destruction of our landscape...
...Bohan, 37, was still in there plunging. Necklines were slipping in practically every big fashion house, but Bohan was a hard man to undercut, clearly wound up on the bottom of the heap. His biggest surprise was moving the bared bosom into broad daylight, and one billowy-sleeved, pleated-skirt afternoon number called the "Tom Jones" was so generously scooped that a single false step-and zut! alors! "We think women are glad to have such decolletage," said a Dior spokesman. But as soon as the show was over, the suddenly-modest models buttoned up quick as a blink before...
...characterizations benefit from revealing gestures. They enhance Laura Esterman's fine performance as the minister's wife; she smooths her skirt self-consciously as she utters smug platitudes--and grasps her husband'; sleeve distractedly after falling in love with Dick Dudgeon...