Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career as a milliner, believes that "a spectacularly flattering hat is the ultimate ornamentation. When Queen Elizabeth has a white-tie party, she wears her crown. It sets her apart from everyone." The right hat, chosen from today's many mad caps, can do the same for any woman...
...spaced-out waif of Carrie and 3 Women is growing up-and dressing up. "I love to get all duded up. It's one of the real me's," says Sissy Spacek, 28, who struts about in diamonds and furs for her first role as a mature woman in Heart Beat. The movie tells the story of the late Beat author Jack Kerouac and of Neal Cassady, a onetime car thief and the model for Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road. Spacek plays Carolyn, a well-bred commercial artist who is married...
...victims had died, both deliverymen, who trundle racks loaded with dresses through traffic-choked streets. Investigators looking for clues to the source of the outbreak instantly checked to see if the two worked for the same shop; they did not, but were employed on the same block. A woman worker from a third shop near by had died, probably a victim of Legionnaires' too. With nothing to indicate a single, discrete source of infection, the only recourse was to sanitize the entire neighborhood...
...begins as a comedy of expensive manners, a satirical account of the marriage between a young man of good family and a young woman of not such good, but equally well-off family. They don't have just a photographer to record this less-than-historic occasion, an entire documentary film crew has been engaged to shoot it. And the presiding clergyman is not merely the local minister but a bishop no less, and what matter that his miter is sweat-stained or that he is senile...
...middle-aged woman named Harriet Monroe persuaded 100 fellow Chicagoans to contribute $50 apiece for five years running. Why? To underwrite a monthly magazine that would publish the best new poetry. As an investment, the project had its drawbacks. First, no one had ever gone broke underestimating America's hunger for good verse. Second, even if acceptable, bill-paying poetry was available, Harriet Monroe seemed singularly ill-equipped to find it. Her own best efforts in the field amounted to little but boosterism: "Hail to thee, fair Chicago! On thy brow/ America, thy mother, lays a crown...