Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the buyer seeking the ultimate in economy, Britain's York Noble Industries Ltd. had a new, fiber-glass-bodied Nobel 200, a tiny (672 lbs.), gas-saving (85 miles per gal.) bubble of a car that seats a family of four and goes as fast as 63 m.p.h...
¶ Two months ago Khrushchev himself told the Soviet people to shape up-discard their familiar padded jackets and baggy pants. Result: on Moscow streets, vivid hats are replacing drab shawls, and more men are wearing fedoras instead of cloth hats. But following fashion is not always easy, complained Izvestia...
Romney keeps his athletic frame (5 ft. 11 in., 175 lbs.) in top shape ("Our body is the temple of our spirit"), plays competitive sports with his two sons, Mitt, 12, and Scott, 17 (his two daughters are married ). The Romneys live in a $150,000 modern Swiss-chalet house...
In few other businesses is public taste so fickle, the worker so temperamental, the unexpected so common. Lieberson's gift is that he thrives on all three. "This business is like running a gambling house," he says. "You've got to cover yourself in all directions."
Style, style is the one thing needful for Earnest, and the Rep's actors can provide it only intermittently. In this most artificial of comedies the actors must look and sound as if they lived in the world of the play, not as if they were assuming certain mannerisms as...