Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only his fourth year of designing women's wear, he is perhaps the most purely American of all. For the "thoroughbred, American-looking girl who really takes care of her body," he creates clothes that are "part of living, earthly, tweedy." He is a masterful tailor and a lover of fabrics such as Harris tweed and British flannel. His slim, sleek adaptations of English blazers and hacking jackets are, he says, "unfashionable in a way, yet fun and exciting in their function." His women's wear brought in $10 million retail last year and Polo, his menswear firm...
...three years; 3% would be the target unemployment rate. The President would have to submit plans to provide every American "able and willing to work" with a job, using a "standby job corps" to hire those unable to find employment. The independent Federal Reserve Board would be required to tailor its monetary policies to meet the employment target-a step toward a planned national economy...
...home. It was sour mash and corn syrup, ridicule and wit, all the local grievances stirred to a bitter brew. And it went down as well in Massachusetts as it did in Alabama. The Bay State, the only one in the union to vote for McGovern in 1972, seems tailor-made for Wallace in 1976. He craftily plays down his chances in the March 2 primary and then adds-with something between a twinkle and a leer: "What if I did get a good vote? It would be a pretty potent message, wouldn't it? It would give them...
...President has managed to get himself into no-win situations with three major pieces of legislation that should soon be coming across his desk. No matter how he handles the bills, he is bound to offend a sizable portion of the American electorate. He also could give Reagan some tailor-made issues. The trio of bills...
...Passions," the same thing happens: Eunuch interrupts two very beautiful stories--one about Lieb Belkes who thinks so much about Israel that one day he leaves his village and walks there, and another about a simple tailor who becomes a great biblical scholar in only twelve months' time. And Eunuch tells of a rabbi so obsessed with Yom Kippur that he decides to celebrate it every day of the year. This is the strangest of all desires in Passions, most of which are earthy--the desire that is finally closest to being Bashevis Singer's one abiding passion...