Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shiny Look. Zingiest of all are the bathing suits. Exhausted by peeling away at the bikini, and prevented by the limits of good taste and state laws from going any farther, sportswear designers have reinstated the one-piece suit. But with a difference. This year it is "the shiny wet look." Fashioned of black materials that are plastic-smooth and neon-bright-vinyl patent, stretch satin, and glistening nylon -the suits look dripping wet before the wearer touches toe to sea, thereby saving her the horror of actually going through with...
Dolls may also be bought. They drink, cry, wet, move their hands around, and talk. It is reported that there is a mechanical man for sale "who can lift up Daddy...
Grandma's Attic. It was the Maine hunting boot that put Leon Leonwood Bean in business. The son of a Yankee horse trader, he drifted from job to job until 1911 when the boot idea struck him as he slogged wet-footed in leather boots through the Maine woods. Helped by a $400 loan from his brother Otho, he set up shop. The Freeport factory expanded steadily but haphazardly, and today it looks like a cross between Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line...
...evening. Behrman dutifully tries to fire Pengo and Co. with emotions. Pengo rages at his petulant and priggishly high-minded son (Brian Bedford). He feels pity for a twitchily neurotic moneybag (Ruth White), for his loyal secretary (Agnes Moorehead), and for a lonely press-maligned monopolist (Henry Daniell). The wet cardboard will not ignite. Only Charles Boyer, the actor, ignites. He is a fountain of eternal charm, a foxy grandpa of stage presence, an animated bundle of Continental gestures who makes the typical U.S. actor seem about as vibrant as a hat tree...
...Brian Thompson provides a main scoring punch for the Quincy team, but it has been well-coordinated team play and tremendous spirit that has been responsible for clinching the House title. In the cold and drizzle of the fall weather, the Quins have been unwilling to succumb to the wet misery that has downed the spirits and the standings of the other Houses...