Word: whims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hutton's start in modeling was almost accidental. She was in New York, intending to leave for Africa on a whim, when she answered an ad for a house model at Christian Dior's salon. "I conned them into thinking I had modeled before," she says. "I just watched the other girls do their pirouettes and imitated them." The job was hers-at $50 a week. Not everybody was so cooperative, however...
...would not accept a reduction in male enrollment. The decision has already sealed the doom of Hunt Hall, and each oversized class that it brings to Cambridge will act as a wedge to force Cambridge residents away from Harvard Square. As long as the priorities of prestige and academic whim guide Harvard's plans, the University will face tough decisions about where and how to build...
Partly it was whim-his gimmick...
...fact of having been aborted are not considered to be human beings, strikes me as ridiculous. If our society has decided that a human fetus is no more than a scrap of tissue attached to a woman's body, and therefore sanctions its removal at her whim, then surely it is foolish to become outraged by experiments performed on it, any more than it makes sense to become outraged about an experiment performed on an excised tumor...
Mott the Hoople. It was Mott the Hoople turned me on to MC Escher's graphics in the first place. It was at a time when whim dictated my album purchases. I planned to buy the album, throw away the record, and hang the cover on my wall. Instead, I discovered that Escher had produced a collected works, and in paperback. I bought it, instead of Mott the Hoople. I filed them away, at the time with people like the Kings, Alan Price, Georgie Fame, the whole one-nighters-through-the-Midlands group. The music? Who knew? Mott more...