Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REHEARSAL. Neither the 18th century costumes they wear for a play within this Anouilh play nor their witty words can hide the motives of aristocrats intent on destroying a pure-and classless-love...
Toward Compromise. Judging by past performances, the talks will continue right up to the Jan. 1 deadline and perhaps beyond it; the Common Market's ministers will wear themselves to a frazzle in all-night sessions and finally reach agreement. Nowadays, it is not politically popular to go home empty-handed -governments and industry both have too big a stake in the success of the Common Market. The French have been particularly effective in floating stories that the market is floundering. Such reports, of course, strengthen their bargaining position. But at bottom the others are convinced that the French...
...scrambled squealing aboard army Jeeps. With the lifting of a temporary curfew and Mme. Nhu's ban on dancing, Saigon's long-repressed night life flowered as never before. In bars and cabarets, the B-girls shucked the white, hospital-like smocks they had been forced to wear under the morality laws, wriggled back into their traditional slit skirts, or into U.S.-style slacks, to twist and tango with Viet and American soldiers into the small hours...
Princeton, which suffered a traumatic shock at Cambridge last week that could take a while to wear off, entertains Yale tomorrow in what is the Big Weekend of the Year for the Princetonians. Yale, of course, does not take the game so seriously, but it is hard to say what this will mean...
...eight mannequins are unique; each was constructed to fill her costume, and the silhouettes represented range from the shapelessness of the nineteen-twenties to the eighteenth-century hourglass. The mannequins wear contemporary accessories and are grouped against period scenery, such as Louisburg Square in the 1880's or a French interior...