Word: toga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THAT THE Revolution has resolved itself into scheduled meetings, you can stop carrying around bag lunches and try out something new. The Yard of Ale has given its site over to ZumZum and the University Restaurant has been remodeled, combining its Greek-oriented cuisine with a plush and pretentious Toga Lounge for cocktails...
...toga into which you place Gore Vidal [March 28] is, of course, that of Gaius Petronius, the blasé arbiter of tastes under Nero who finally incurred the emperor's wrath and calmly severed his veins. The analogy could be extended: Petronius authored another "bad-tasting" book, the Satyricon, which, like Myra Breckinridge, is a dazzlingly unique contribution to the world's comic literature. Only those whose discrimination is flawless can achieve what Brigid Brophy calls "the dizzying, the rococo heights of true bad taste...
...toga and a wreath on Gore Vidal and he could pass as a Roman at Nero's court. You know, the cheerfully disillusioned fellow in the corner who always said the empire would come to a bad end and-now that the fire has started-is absolutely the life of the party...
LOOKING like a cross between a stern schoolmarm and an impish witch, the short (5 ft. 2 in.), broad-beamed woman in a floor-length, toga-like gown marched onto the stage at the American Museum of Natural History last week, clutching her ever-present forked walking stick. Then, peering at the overflow audience of nearly 1,500, Margaret Mead, who at 67 is something more than an anthropologist and something less than a national oracle, undertook one of her favorite tasks. She told her audience what is afoot in the world and some good ways to improve...
...freaky. On one platform, a bearded man lies supine, eyes staring, engrossed in the melange of sound effects and music-ranging from Mozart to the Mothers of Invention-that is pouring through his headphones. On another, a girl guest performs a barefoot ballet, delighting in the swirl of the toga around her legs. Off in a corner, a couple engages in mild petting. Attendants pad back and forth, visiting silently with guests or passing out toys: slide projectors, mirrors, kaleidoscopes, helium-filled balloons. A long-haired girl ties four of the balloons to her tresses and parades serenely along...