Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly, the TV lights were on, the crowd was on its feet, the band was playing "Every Little Breeze Seems To Whisper Louise" and the men and women, without exception, were clapping and bouncing with glee for the 54-year-old grandmother...
...perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail. She is one of the new sisterhood-like Novelist Joan Didion and Poet Anne Sexton-who seem to have sprung full-grown from condemned-property dollhouses. Hyper-observant, dangerously polite waifs, they look at the world with large, bruised eyes and gently whisper of loneliness, emptiness and casual cruelty...
...months, through 86 formal sessions and a number of private meetings, the words of the Viet Nam negotiators have filled the conference room. With rare exceptions, the talk has been meaningless exchanges of the unacceptable that amount almost to silence. Even a whisper of potential change in such an atmosphere becomes a hopeful rumble. And hope is rumbling now in Paris...
Anna and Bonnie. Style, it developed, did not have to filter down to the streets: it might just as easily, and did, start there. The hue and cry for custom clothes, at full pitch only five years ago, has become a whisper in the stores. Says Bonwit Teller President William Fine: "The line-for-line derby is not consistent with the changing times and mood of the consumer." Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's and Alexander's have dropped their import copies. Lord & Taylor plans to continue its reproductions in different fabrics. But the only Manhattan department store still...
...faces a shortage of electricity this summer. Power failures may afflict Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul, plus most of the Eastern Seaboard from New York to Georgia. All these areas can expect regular "brownouts"-voltage reductions that dim lights, slow the whir of air conditioners to a whisper and obscure TV pictures with blizzards of snow...