Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diners in the Soviet Union, 1976 is turning into the Year of the Fish. In past weeks signs have sprouted outside restorany and stolovye (cafeteria-style eateries) across the country, warning customers that meat will not be served one day out of seven. Moscow insists that the campaign will "improve the food pattern" of Soviet citizens. In fact, the Kremlin has been forced to scale down meat consumption because of a growing shortage-the direct result of last year's disastrous grain harvest...
...more than a decade, Mobutu Sese Seko, 45, has ruled Zaïre with style and forcefulness-a fact that his countrymen are seldom allowed to forget. Commonly referred to by his own government and press as Le Guide, Mobutu restored stability to the former Belgian Congo and unified its 100 tribes into a true nation after the bloody civil war of the 1960s. Since then, the shy, scholarly army commander has become a flamboyant, African cult figure whose rule sometimes seems akin to that of a god-chief. Mobutu's portrait, capped by the leopard-skin hat that...
Rippon works a three-day shift of twelve-hour days. She does not write her own copy, though she suggests changes to improve style and delivery. "The hardest part of the job is the mental discipline," she says. "You mustn't look as if you're concentrating, but the biggest pitfall is to lose concentration...
Despite all the money he has lost, Paul is now worth ? 10 million. The McCartneys have adopted a pastoral variation on rock's royal style. They keep a home in London's tony St. John's Wood, but, says a member of the McCartney staff, "it is definitely not a show house...
...North American cities. Gucci has long been established in Palm Beach, Chicago and Beverly Hills. Rizzoli plans to open ten stores in the next five years, starting in Chicago's Water Tower Place next month. Di Camerino opened in Dallas last October and immediately seized on the Texas style. It bought an antique Rolls-Royce to chauffeur clients to and from the airport...