Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roomier pants may catch on as more women opt for comfort over the tight, almost girdled feeling. Says Lorelei Davis, whose Fiorucci store in Chicago sells baggy pants in Day-Glo colors and a variety of fabrics: "Fashion is a reaction, and women aren't that comfortable in tight pants." That may be true, but it is scant consolation to many men. Grumbles one New York male: "I don't think the men of America will put up with this...
...preserve the species, Porsche hopes to develop a "superauto," which would have the same comfort and performance as the current models, but cost less. Other experts fear that the American requirements, plus the likelihood that European nations will be lowering speed limits to conserve energy, may cause insurmountable problems. Asks Giorgietto Giugiaro, Italy's top freelance car designer: "Is there any sense in buying a car whose prestige depends on its performance and the music of its engine, if these cannot be used after...
...Wafa Wal Amal, the rehabilitation center for the handicapped that is First Lady Jehan Sadat's favorite charity. Jehan and Barbara struck it off famously, but Sinatra kept mostly to himself until showtime. By then the sand near the Pyramids had been covered with 300 carpets for the comfort of guests who had paid up to $30,000 a table to hear him sing such golden oldies as The Lady Is a Tramp, Someone to Watch over Me and, of course, My Way. Between songs Sinatra cracked Italian and Jewish jokes and complimented Host Anwar Sadat: "He really...
Managers who have found themselves embroiled in no-win squabbles with environmental and consumer groups might take some comfort in the problem facing the Blue Diamond Coal Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. It is being taken to court by, of all adversaries, an order of Roman Catholic nuns. Armed with 81 shares of Blue Diamond stock, the 750-member Sisters of Loretto, a teaching order based in Denver, last week joined twelve other parties in bringing a lawsuit against the company. The nuns' eventual aim, as one of them describes it: to urge the company toward greater "corporate responsibility...
...Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes seem to float, and an austere double bed. A bed, he said, "isn't only a place for voluptuousness," but a place for comfort and majesty...