Word: eugenia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Henry Martin ("Scoop") Jackson, 49, Democratic junior Senator from Washington long rated Capitol Hill's most eligible bachelor; and Helen Eugenia Hardin, 28, fetching blonde former receptionist for New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson; he for the first time, she for the second; in Albuquerque...
...size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material. There is not a seam to be seen, or to cut, bind or pucker. "The first big fashion bolt of the season," cried the Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard, and its makers were ecstatically suggesting that the day was not far off when all milady's garments, from girdles to gowns, would be made of seamless moldable cloth...
...Sophoclean namesake was. Unlike Clytemnestra. his mother has not killed her husband; she has merely taken up with a fake faith healer while her soldier-husband is missing in war. Her house has become a near-brothel and a hangout for all sorts of scurvy types. To Eugenia, the latter-day Electra, hating her mother's vulgarity and unfaithfulness, life is agony. Their violent quarrels have become a way of life, to be ended, Eugenia believes, only when Brother Orestes comes back from the university to set things right. When he does show up, he is seen...
When it comes to making a choice between her mother and brother, Eugenia chooses the mother. Rather a despised parent on whom she can exercise her hatred than a brother who. by her passionate standards, is not a man. "I followed a kind of hunch, an instinctive, obsessive feeling," says Author Cicellis, ''that Orestes was reluctant to exercise vengeance, not really interested, and that Electra was much closer to her mother than she thought...
...infatuated with it. 'The little nothing is becoming a uniform." says Arnold Scaasi. "Women today want to wear 'something' -that special dress that makes them look young, glamorous and pretty.'' Reports the New York Herald Tribune's alert women's feature editor. Eugenia Sheppard: "Husbands even say that the little nothing is just a misnomer for that little rag." The little-nothing effect is often contoured to the individual buyer, thus cannot really be mass-produced. Nonetheless. Seventh Avenue is putting out inexpensive copies of the little nothing in silk and crepe...