Word: designate
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...once layers of rhetoric are peeled away--words should not obscure reality--citizens may be confronted with the disturbing notion that Carter represents quite accurately their attitudes. He has reflected a certain ambivalence, an ambiguity in direction. If he has lurched from difficulty to difficulty without a coherent design, if he has wavered between two extremes in both economic and foreign policy, it is only because he keeps one eye cocked at public opinion polls. At every instance, he has not acted but reacted...
Shakespeare's design for As You Like It is one of his most transparent: a sketchy framework of undeveloped plot hangs at both ends of the play as an excuse to get the characters into the forest of Arden, where the complex interplay of nearallegorical characters assumes the aspect, at times, of a philosophical inquiry. A banished duke holds court over a pastoral golden age in the forest; his men pluck the lute, sing, and sleep while Jaques the melancholiac provides counterpoint to their contentment. Into their hermetically enchanted realm bound a pair of lovers, whose parabolic approaches give Shakespeare...
...renovation. The result, she boasts: "The beginning of boutiques." Rows of tiny shops, scarcely bigger than Victorian dressing cupboards, were set up on the main floor. The street of shops became Bendel's fame and still provides one-third of the earnings of the whole store. The basic design has not changed in 21 years. "I keep thinking that one day it will look old-fashioned and passe," says Stutz, "but it doesn't." Customers there receive close but not suffocating attention from modish salespeople as they buy pheasant feather necklaces for $270 or silvery snakeskin-covered appointment...
...Bendel's upper four floors, Stutz in the early 1960s began selling the latest creations of young, and then unknown, designers such as Jean Muir, Sonia Rykiel and later, Mary McFadden. Then, in a move that shocked other retailers, she instructed them to design clothes that would fit only the slender. Bendel catered to women almost as thin as fashion models with dress sizes that ranged from 2 to 10. Instead of driving away business, the move gave the store a certain cachet. In 1979 Bendel earned $1.4 million on $15 million in sales...
...making of a cloak, and they were painstakingly tied to a mesh base to form broad, brilliant patterns. Not until the 1950s, with Hen ri Matisse's chasubles for the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, would a ceremonial garment approach the purity and bold ness of design of the 19th century chiefs cloak named for Kekaulike-nui. Such objects would form a climax to any ethnographical show. One can only regret that in this case they do not cap a better...