Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 belt pouches and spats and the cobra gladiator vest at Kamali. Betsey, Bunky and Nini, another boutique, has appliquéd snakeskin stars onto belts and has imported Ossie Clark's $200 cobra patchwork waist jacket. Manhattan...
...total work force this year by 2,000, to 100,000, as production begins on its L-1011 airbus. Similarly, General Dynamics plans no cutbacks in its 70,000-man labor force during 1970 -unless the Air Force cancels plans to buy 40 more of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bombers...
...tendency to "swing" a little more raucously than is considered acceptable
...Hair is the story of a hippie tribe that does away with the organizational modes that keep people apart; conventional theatrical limitations become meaningless. A black actor with a giant Afro wig swings across the theatre on a Tarzan swing, and other members of the cast climb almost to the balcony in the sets constructed out along the theatre's walls. The audience is uptight when loin- clothed Berger first climbs out into its lap, panhandling for a dime; but the illusion of spectator distance begins to fade with the progress of the play. The audience comes to realize that...
Kathy and Jeanne and Christine stitched on the front. Their young, tough little bottoms are encased in levis, and they're chewing gum with their months open, stomping on the floorboards down by the edge of the rink, and when they sing "Ki-ill Te-ech" and swing their arms back and forth, they look like real hardnosed little broads...