Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be a great winter for girl watchers-and for girls who watch their figures. In show after show last week, as Paris couturiers unveiled their fall designs, last year's loose look yielded to slim, trim, body-conscious clothes. Hubert de Givenchy came out with a shape that Women's Wear Daily was quick to label "the TT-or Tight Torso." Pierre Cardin's bottom-cupping skirts cling as tightly as the skin on a peach. Yves Saint Laurent, couture's most influential designer, has also rediscovered the slim look, with cool, understated dresses...
Seat racing was the method that had been used to weed out 32 women from the 75 who had competed at the women's National Championships at Princeton in June, and once those 32 had arrived at the Olympic Camp at Harvard, seat racing had been used to trim the number to 11. As the crowds thinned out, the pressure had grown less and less intense; no longer was there a swarm of women to speculate about, to compare yourself to, to try to rank in lists. Now everyone knew more or less where they stood. It only remained...
What a gag like this lacks in novelty Director Blake Edwards can make up for with the trim velocity of his timing, the precision engineering of each comic contretemps. Then there is Peter Sellers as Clouseau. This idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of impervious stupidity and unyielding, if ever tenuous, dignity. Clouseau can vacuum up the entire contents of a hotel room, drive trucks into a swimming pool, inundate his quarters with bubble bath, and still react with the mere suggestion of embarrassment, as if he had just sneezed a little too loudly...
...Western-influenced life-style of Saigon has become a target of Communist ire. Blue jeans, nail polish, lipstick and miniskirts have been condemned as vestiges of the defeated capitalist society. Young men have been pressured to trim their long hair, while girls have been urged to wear "clothes that are simple and not stimulating." As a result, more Saigon women these days are wearing the traditional slit-skirt ao-dai, which, ironically, many Westerners regarded as extremely stimulating indeed...
...other countries, particularly Iran, opt for the trim Mach 2-plus (1,500 m.p.h.) craft, total production could reach almost 1,500 planes worth $9.1 billion. The agreed "not-to-exceed" price of $6.09 million (v. $5.5 million for the Mirage) per basic airplane, could, if 1,500 planes are in fact sold, add $4.3 billion to the credit side of the U.S. trade balance during the next ten years. The long-range total could be even higher; such extras as spare parts and technical additions could boost the per-plane price to $7.6 million...