Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Year of the Dog in China, but for the world of fashion there seems to be no doubt that the sea son belongs to the snake...
Tunics to Trunks. Department stores were only too delighted to respond to the spell. Most took full-page newspaper ads celebrating serpent fashions. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor opened a special shop, "Great Snakes," last month, stocked it with everything from real py thon tunics to synthetic-snake robes, jackets and dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork...
Director Furie, who is still in his 30s, started off his career by turning out such products as The Snake Woman and Doctor Blood's Coffin, then directed Rita Tushington in the generally-neglected Leather Boys (1963) and went on two years later to the high point of his achievement- The Ipcress File, the crackling spy vehicle in which Michael Caine-Harry Palmer kissed with his glasses...