Word: tinsel
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...town, Lee Radziwill wears a white lame and silver-sequined dress. Barbara Howar, Washington's high priestess of mad mod fashion, showed up at the International Ball in a strapless tent dress of silver lame ribbons on net, while her best friend, Yolande Fox, came wrapped in silver tinsel threaded through ice-blu lace...
...year-old boy, his tiny face knotted with perplexity, "Lady, it's not even Halloween yet." It wasn't, either. Sanger-Harris, together with many other U.S. depart ment stores, installed its early-bird Christmas Shop in October this year, replete with cards, creches, plastic Christmas trees, tinsel and wrappings. The U.S. shopper is not imagining things. Christmas does come a little earlier each year...
Next morning Jennifer awoke refreshed and radiantly ready for another day of drudgery in the tinsel mines. Show business was her life, but it was a life that ran a girl ragged. The little red dolls were just what the doctor ordered for her insomnia, and so the next night she took another one to bed with her, and the night after that another. Within a year she was up to three, four, five a night. Sometimes she threw in a couple of yellow dolls, just to make sure, and in the morning she swallowed a green doll to wake...
...reclaim the clean lucre, after all, but to capture a wild bull in the garden. Though Department Store follows the perennial Rififi formula, Director Pierre Grimblat has wrapped up an ingenious package of Sennett slapstick, Gallic gaiety and bits of Yuletide foolery that deserves to outlast the tinsel and snow...
...stakes were rising in Ian Smith's daring game against the British. Rhodesians jammed the downtown streets of Salisbury and Bulawayo in a carefree holiday shopping spree, while shopkeepers demonstrated their support of the poker-faced Prime Minister by decorating their windows with his picture, draped in tinsel and purple bunting. But in the rest of Africa, black men were lacing their indignation at Smith's breakaway regime with ugly threats...