Word: tailored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong; the third step is to learn that, if one is really "secure," one can afford even to be flashy. This interminable dialectic of snobbery can produce genuine anxiety, as is shown by the innumerable cases of people who frantically seek to hide their families, change their names, tailor their accents ? and wind up losing their identities...
Popularity has come to her with a rush. Daughter of a Sydney tailor, Joan Sutherland took no formal voice lessons until she was 18. In 1950 she won $2,800 in an Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed a $28-a-week small-parts job at London's Covent Garden. She "jogged along" until 1958, when she became an overnight sensation in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
About 60 years ago, Fioravanti said, he happened to meet two brothers named Riccardi who specialized in mending ancient pottery for Italian antique dealers. Though a tailor at the time, Fioravanti became fascinated by the business, soon had a job in the Riccardi shop. Then one day the three men got an idea: If they could mend ancient works of art, why could they not also create them from scratch...
...weighing 200 lbs., wearing a rose-gold watch, dark suits and French cuffs, Joe Levine at 55 suggests a sort of low-ceilinged Harry Golden. He is low-key, as well - a surprisingly quiet businessman who was born in a Boston slum, learned about money and gambling from his tailor stepfather, "who made $4 a week and liked to play poker." He quit school at 14, became a drummer for a dress company, in seven years had a small chain of suburban retail dress stores, in partner ship with an older brother. Drifting on, he lost...
...Basilica four new princes of the church, clad in magnificent scarlet robes, knelt last week to receive from Pope John their red hats, symbolic of their elevation to the College of Cardinals. Besides their rank and faith, the new cardinals had something else in common: the same tailor. Every stitch of their elaborate garments, from scarlet silk stockings to matching skullcap, came from Bonaventura Gammarelli, 61, the most prestigious name in the Roman Catholic cloak and soutane trade. From his small shop in the shadow of Rome's ancient Pantheon, Gammarelli sends out the robes and capes to Catholic...