Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservative Manifesto. Sophie has always been content to let more flashy designers go their own gait, and doesn't worry about trying to set a trend. She believes in the maxim that the best-dressed women follow the fashions at a discreet distance. Her style is to be simple and unaffected. Says she: "I try to make a woman look as sexy as possible and yet look like a perfect lady." Many women want to look like that. Consequently, Sophie probably sells more clothes than any other designer, with the possible exception of her archrival, Hattie Carnegie...
Kiss of Death (20th Century-Fox) illustrates a new and vigorous trend in U.S. moviemaking. One of the best things that is happening in Hollywood is the tendency to move out of the place-to base fictional pictures on fact, and, more importantly, to shoot them not in painted studio sets but in actual places. In making this kind of realistic "locale" movie, 20th Century-Fox has been the leader-with The House on 92nd St., 13 Rue Madeleine and Boomerang...
Author Born sees a new trend, "precisionism," in modern U.S. still life. To his taste, the best living still-lifer in the U.S. is Charles Sheeler, a precisionist who likes painting machines and whose machine-smooth technique often looks as slick as a glossy photograph. "Sheeler's interpretation of the machine," writes Born, "in all its apparent austerity, is ... mechanization . . . humanized. Hence he not only forms the zenith of a development but also points the way to a new goal." That sounded rather like a plastic apple arc-welded to a bulletproof dish-and it did not sound much...
...Trend Reversed. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production (in which the years 1935-39 equal 100) dropped during July, for the fourth month in a row, to 178. This was six points below June and twelve points below the postwar high last March. But the board said that, although it did not yet have final figures, "scattered information" indicated that the downward trend, due "in part to influences of a temporary nature," was reversed in August...
Irreversible Trend? In its sixth successive weekly rise, the Department of Labor's index of wholesale prices inched up .8% to a new postwar high of 153.5% (of the 1926 average). The Dow-Jones commodity futures index spurted 3.45 points to 152.03, highest since the index was started in 1933. Nothing would pull prices down, said General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson somewhat hopelessly, except "technological advances and more efficient mass production...