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...through the summer the questions loomed over the fashion horizon: Whither the midi? Would autumn, and the return to real clothes, find women taking the downward drift in stride, their minis in mothballs, their legs in hiding? Designers scoffed at alternatives, and so-called smart stores had little else in stock. But October is here and almost gone, and only the leaves are falling; skirts are just about as short as ever. All told, the mid-calf hemline seems clearly a long-lost proposition...
Like a Tennessee warbler, the electric guitar flutters downward in graceful slides and turns. The country fiddle scratches out a polite howdy. And the nasal, melancholy baritone begins to sing...
...years, sales of loose tobacco for hand-rolled cigarettes have zigzagged downward, perhaps because Americans find rolling inconvenient when tailor-made cigarettes are so easily available. Prices for those tailor-mades, however, have zoomed. (In New York, a pack now sells for 55? to 65?, in San Francisco, 40? to 50?.) To fight that rise, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. has now hit the streets with Laredo, a kit that might be called the Rolls-Royce of cigarette-rolling machines. Fast, efficient and all but completely foolproof, it turns out a filter cigarette in less than a minute. Included...
...When 1,000,000 people, half of whom are probably in the $10,000-to-$ 18,000 bracket or better, are out of work largely because of Government spending cutbacks in aerospace and related industries, you cannot help but have a slump [June 1]. It is simply a downward spiral: less income, less tax paid, less money spent; ergo more Government funds for unemployment...
...villages devoured by an implacable sun have revealed to me a contradictory perspective," he wrote. "Never can the eye identify to what a given shadow or strip of wall belongs: solids and voids merge into one another, forms and backgrounds alternate, a given square jumps up or slithers downward depending on whether I couple it with a dark green spot or a piece of pale sky. Thus, identifiable things are transmuted into abstractions and begin their own independent life." From that moment on, Vasarely's canvas was to become a visual theater expressing the permutations of light, space...