Word: starks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andre Courreges is a designer of an altogether different cut. No little gold ballroom chairs for his customers. Inside his stark white salon, the mood is discotheque, with pigtailed models frantically gyrating to earsplitting records of the Modern Jazz Quartet. His styles still echo the severe architectural geometry of his original look-the first and only new look that Paris has offered in 20 years. He still favors Mary Jane shoes and calf-length white socks, and his original miniskirt is just where he first cut it off-four inches above the knee...
...state. Frank's secret hobby is building up a huge collection of candid but forbidden photographs: "unsuitable pictures taken from unsuitable angles, the averted face of the world in which [the tyrant] moved, a parade of folly, a riot of vanity, a debauch of cowardice-s a stark naked general dancing the csúrdú among the cakes on a banquet table, a collective orgy of rural bosses...
FAREWELL, FAR EAST, headlined the London Evening Standard. In the Daily Express, Labor M.P. Desmond Donnelly called the government's plan "the most stark military withdrawal since the Roman legions were recalled from Britain." With a mingled sense of nostalgia and relief, Britain announced that it will gradually rid itself of the most burdensome vestige of its venerable but faded oriental empire. In a long-expected move, the government issued a Defense Ministry White Paper calling for withdrawal of all 80,000 British troops and civilians from Singapore and Malaysia by the mid-1970s...
...Streisand, movie star, and at that point the 25-year-old singer had staggered for an hour through the same one-minute scene in Funny Girl without getting it right. "My back hurts; my feet hurt!" yelled Streisand from her perch on a tugboat. "Now, now," consoled Producer Ray Stark. "You're young and healthy and strong." "What do you mean?" wailed Barbra. "I'm a working mother...
...speculation is on the exchanges. Acting for a group of well-heeled investors, Chicago Coin Dealer Leonard Stark has been advertising for $ 10 million worth of old-style silver certificates at a 15% premium over their face value. Banking on the fact that the Treasury will continue to redeem them for .77 oz. of silver each until next June, Stark's group stands to make a handsome profit...