Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some flowers, so you can't have something too revealing, and you can't have hems too short because when you bend over, there are six children looking up your skirt." Diana has shifted from the rather frumpy, pastel suits of the engagement period to sleek, sophisticated ensembles and romantic hats. For evening wear she favors slinky numbers with daring back slits or fairy-like gossamer gowns. What is engaging about her sense of style is that she chooses clothes with a touch of wit, even if she occasionally looks like a fashion casualty. After years of seeing the Queen...
...OPENING scene of My Other Husband, French actress Miou-Miou, yupped-out in a sleek business suit, pushes her way through a bustling Paris street crowd. This scene pretty much sets the tone for the film that follows--or more accurately, falters--thereafter: This is a movie about a woman who is cramped, hassled and always in a hurry...
What follows is the shady proposition that less gray matter means more happiness--or at least less unhappiness. Given a million years on a remote island, nature turns humans into seal-like creatures of limited intellect. Flippers and sleek skulls enable them to swim after fish. There is no overpopulation because the earth's pre-eminent consumer is now an intermediate delicacy in the food chain, lunch for sharks and killer whales...
...just after 10 on a clear Tuesday morning when the eight sleek warplanes peeled off over the faintly ruffled waters of the Gulf of Tunis in the western Mediterranean. They were a long way from home, and they wasted little time. While the others hovered high over the sea like watchful birds of prey, the first two jets swooped down on the beach, so low that startled and incredulous bystanders on the shore could pick out the Star of David on the planes' flashing silver tails. A volley of bombs and missiles streaked into a cluster of sand-colored buildings...
...noise was like thunder," recalled Tito Garcia Mendez, 60, who was riding the city's sleek subway, one of the capital's brightest successes. "All the lights went out. People began screaming. I felt dizzy. I thought it was because I was hungry." Fernando Levaro, 21, a medical student, was driving to an early class. "My car began swinging from one side of the road to the other. I could see lampposts and buildings swaying. People began to run, but they didn't know where to go. It was terrible." Arturo Cholula, 40, was getting dressed...