Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south are the medium-sized Tosks. All Albanians-whether Ghegs or Tosks-have had a bad name among their neighbors. The ancient Greeks cursed them as brigands, the Romans as pirates. But some visitors brought out favorable reports. Englishmen think the Albanians resemble Scots Highlanders, probably because they wear white kilts and have a moody Celtic temperament that inclines them toward always marching off to battle. A less romantic observer, Stalin, thought Albanians "rather backward and primitive," but agreed that "they can be as faithful...
...certain they would battle against any movement to overthrow it. They know nothing else, and to them the term 'capitalism' spells depravity and damnation." They fight only to buy more books, to write about day to day problems rather than about the romance of building Socialism, and to wear lipstick and play jazz...
...crime shows want to impress Minow too. The FCC chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly...
...Anita Colby, all out of their teens, and not one of whom would be caught dead in plastic. And George is as admiring of his patrons as they are of him. "Hollywood glamour girls," he says, "are chicquer than these New York society women. They know what to wear and what to do for themselves. Like Marilyn, for instance, she knows every pore in her face. And what wonderful hair she has, what body...
George of Beverly Hills wears his own hair on the longish side, but cautions women against too much hair-fullness. "Women." he says, "should look like little European boys. Their hair should be short and cropped. Any woman who will not wear her hair that way is basically very insecure. And Kenneth, with his big poufy bouffant jobs, is just too jazzy for me". Mrs. Kennedy, believe me, could look a lot better...