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Word: turtlenecks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Innards. As the play begins, a ten-foot-tall puppet with a bilious, wart-covered face lumbers to the center of the stage and mumbles unintelligible words from an ugly rubber mouth while wielding a black plastic truncheon. "Kill the dirty Fascist!" shouts a group of men in turtleneck sweaters as they start to beat the puppet's swollen belly. Out from the puppet's innards steps a shapely brunette in a bathing costume who announces that she is "Capitalism." Soon a 30-foot-long white-and-green-colored dragon winds its way through the gasping audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plays Abroad: Italian Incendiary | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...they do, today's bank robbers are far more sophisticated than Bonnie and Clyde. Although retired Boston Bank Robber Teddy Green cheerfully calls cameras "the best weapons the banks have," bankers complain that robbers are too often disguised with ski masks, wigs, dark glasses or turned-up turtleneck sweaters. Officers are also loath to adopt extreme precautions. One that has done so is Washington's aptly named Security Bank. After three robberies at one branch in 55 days last summer, Security decided to lock the front door permanently. Customers enter through a rear door, and tellers work behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Outdoing Bonnie and Clyde | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...party in Paris was called "A Night of Love," and there were those redoubtable romancers, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, he ever so mod in white turtleneck, dancing till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...kind of audience breakthrough that has marked most of Hollander's concert appearances in the past two years. At Brown University he walked onstage in a turtleneck, boots and tight slacks, then "rapped a bit," as he puts it, with the students. "We had a give and take, a sway over the footlights," he recalls. "They felt something, that I was one of them, that I was giving them no lies, that I was not one of the programmed society." Last year he spent a week with the experimental Living Arts Program in the Dayton, Ohio, public schools, teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Rebel in Velvet | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Most of the products are made in the country where sold, primarily to avoid import duties. An aide handles administrative details while Cardin-often dressed in a white turtleneck sweater, black felt tunic and wide leather belt-creates. He designs all Cardin-labeled clothing but not all of the accessories, though they have his "approval." His prices run about one-fifth as high as the originals; among the copies, men's suits sell for $175 and up, belts for $10 to $25 and shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: The Designing Man | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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