Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life is tough, you repeat to yourself, but the memories of your own rather pleasant weekend, filled with morning sails and evening gins-and-tonic, gives you the strength to fight off any and all twinges of upper-middle-class guilt. Back to the newspaper, which offers little solace: the holiday weekend; it reports, featured a grand total of 15 murders, not including the 150 or so wounded in the explosion of an ice-cream truck in Manhattan. And the summer hasn't even begun...
...sellout. Italy's Giorgio Armani is generally acknowledged to be the greatest evangelist of male unkempt. A disarming, blue-eyed Milanese, Armani, 43, is a canny tailor who knows precisely what each fabric can do and undo. Though Italians call his style Il Look Inglese-to which stiff upper-collared Englishmen might well object-Armani has managed to steer the national aspiration to la bella figura toward an image of bohemian nonchalance. His bellows-pocketed, unlined suits are sellouts in the U.S. at prices ranging from...
...beguiling chatter of incident and their unfailing decorative sense. Priests, archers, race jockeys, carpenters, nobles, swordsmen, dancing girls, cooks, vegetable sellers, water carriers, lackeys, Kabuki actors, fishermen-the cast of characters is wide, embracing most of the classes and occupations in Japanese society-seen from the detached eyeline of upper-class patronage. The intimations of sympathy with underdogs that occasionally crop up in European genre painting are not to be seen here...
...when he hears me; it's not the words but the sound of it." Gebel-Williams has little use for bears because they don't look you in the face, and chimpanzees because "all the time they have their minds on how to get the upper hand...
...extraordinarily friendly counter help; it's probably the menu, because once you stray from the cheesesteak you're on your own. Whatever the secret, Tommy's always attracts a big crowd. And he knows it, too--the prices just went up, and are now at the upper limit of the tolerable range (we just can't believe grease has gotten that expensive). Early risers should also check out the breakfast specials, which are the best in the Square, especially when Tommy decides to begin the morning with a few Armenian love ballads...