Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comedy program of the 1950s whose routines he has memorized. He often emulates the show's outrageous punning style. (Sample royal groaner, after a dogsled ride in Canada: "That just sleighed me.") He loves to deflate Establishment airs, and once showed up to address a banquet of the Master Tailors' Benevolent Association in a shabby tweed jacket over his proper white tie. "I am often asked if it is because of some generic trait that I stand with my hands behind my back like my father," he told them. "The answer is that we both have the same tailor...
Computers and sophisticated mailing lists now make it possible to tailor-make magazines that home in unerringly on the most specialized of interests, occupations, skills, pleasures. The result is a clutter of publications, and the way they seek to define themselves, and to separate themselves from the ruck, combines high-mindedness and hustle...
Using an electronic "dictionary," which it scans in a fraction of a second, the system can figure out how to break almost any word up to and including the 14-syllable supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It can set type in any one of Time Inc.'s own 127 fonts, tailor-fit copy to a layout, and draw in boxes and assorted lines. Finally, at the rate of a page every 15 seconds, the system can whisk the whole magazine to our printers in Chicago via telephone wires. TIME will soon acquire yet another computerized device-a Videocomp machine that will enable...
...conducted in French. All professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, must display "appropriate" fluency in order to practice in Quebec. Corporations will be monitored by a government board to ensure that French becomes the "language of work." To pacify English-speaking Big Business, the Quebec government has promised to tailor exceptions for some 40 national and international corporate head offices located in Montreal...
...course, highly styled simplicity. Pantsuits are back, with pleated trousers that are cuffed, tapered, and short enough to restore the ankle to the erogenous zones. Jackets are often short, with wide shoulders but enough careful tailor ing to avoid the tough-guy, gangster look...