Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LUMPY GRAVY: FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION (Verve). Long before the Beatles turned acid with Sgt. Pepper, the Mothers were setting a new rock trend with their first release, entitled Freak Out. This is Album No. 4, and their musical anarchy of electronic sound, dialogue, parody, rock improvisation and jazz has developed into a vastly complex style unparalleled on the rock scene. It's not for dancing. Just lend...
...lady of style has gobs of money, she can still find all the exclusive, just-for-you creations her heart desires in Paris' high-fashion houses. But the designers these days trend more to mass-market ready-to-wears, known as prét à porter-and to more pants, more boots, more chains, more turtlenecks and, of course, more transparency. For his fall collection, André Courrèges' main excitement was a white, rib-knit jump suit, with a tunic for daytime wear and a sequined pants outfit with see-through top for after dark...
...showed record second-quarter earnings of $116.8 million ($1.44 per share), up from 1967's $107.8 million ($1.33 per share). Chairman O. N. Miller attributed the 8% gain to a 15% jump from 1967's pace of 1,807,500 bbl. daily, plus a "continued strong upward trend" in chemical-sales revenues...
...singing masks the reality that most worshipers are atomistically locked in their own private thoughts. Worried about this failure to interact, a few avant-garde theologians are experimenting with new, nonverbal techniques as potential ways of restoring some sense of community in worship. A striking example of this trend took place at the recent assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden, where Wilbert H. McGaw Jr. presided over a series of what he calls "touch-and-tell" services that used physical contact as a stimulus to prayer...
Moving North. Home air conditioning began in hot Southern states, which still lead in sales. Texas ranks first both in the total (1,880,000) and percentage (58.3%) of air-conditioned homes. The trend has gradually worked north; New York ranks second in the number of airconditioned homes. Furthermore, when . it comes to window units, families seldom stop at one. Most buy an air conditioner for the master bedroom, later decide that the children ought to have one, too, and so should the kitchen. "They're like peanuts," says a Westinghouse executive. "If you have...