Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intention to shock by obscenity, absurd dress and confrontation...
Many adult Americans were shocked by the most obvious manifestations of the new romanticism-nudity, casual sex, obscenity, absurd dress, confrontation tactics. These were, of course, intended to shock. In describing some of his wilder contemporaries, Françoise René de Châteaubriand might have been talking about Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin when they confronted a House Un-American Activities subcommittee: "They rig themselves up as comic sketches, as grotesques, as caricatures. Some of them wear frightful mustaches; one would suppose that they are going forth to conquer the world." The heroes upon whom the romantics model...
...iridescent parties in his novels, Coward has saturated his plays with the ambience of sophistication. One always seems to be slumming upwards at a Coward play, forever lingering on a moonlit terrace, and peeking into bedrooms that are more like ballrooms. The characters always seem to be in evening dress even when they aren't. They appear to be dancing even when crossing the room just to pour a drink...
Adds Mr. Nagasaka: "We dress the Western way, we eat Western foods, we work in Western milieus, and we even dance gogo. The trend toward Westernization has at long last begun making us sleep the Western...
...HATING BOOK, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Ben Shecter (Harper & Row; $2.95). "I hate hate hated my friend." So begins this tale of a hot but brief misunderstanding between two little girls that is finally solved by confrontation: "When I wore my new dress, Sue said Jane said you said I looked like a freak." "I did not! I said you looked neatl...