Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When one couple arrived--the boy attired in blue jeans and turtleneck sweater, the girl in black tights, skirt, and sweater--they were besieged by newsmen desperately looking for a story...
...Rome recently a woman finished her confession and waited for her penance. "You will say six Hail Marys," said the priest, "and knit me a sweater-long sleeves, please...
...number of bars, or of interjecting a caressing wobble, or of suddenly, with a crack of her high-heeled foot, breaking and reshaping the beat. The image goes with the voice: in her nightclub appearances she frequently appears in a skintight, flesh-colored satin skirt and turquoise sweater with matching eyelids, and bumps and swivels her way through a repertory that is by turns sexy, solicitous, folksy and dramatic. There is not a mingy number...
...what was right and what was wrong," says First Grade Teacher Ruth Barlow, since the kiddy cops handed out speeding tickets with Ribicoffan severity ("usually to the same youngsters," says Mrs. Barlow). Transgressors were tried by a "judge" sitting atop teacher's desk and wearing teacher's sweater backward as a robe. By the first graduation exercises, even kids once addicted to pedaling along at dizzy speeds were reformed enough to win coveted safety certificates. If the lessons stick with the children through the ten years or so before they can drive, the scheme promises...
...Gloria (surname: Ziraldo), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did "chorus work" in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when "we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all. But the ships are very slow now, and we don't get so many sailors any more." The uptown crowd has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a button-down collar...