Word: flashings
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...Flash, and he'll give you an answer. That's probably because he's done it so many times before that it's become his thing. He's maybe 15, with suspenders and great big braces on his teeth. Flash has been on the streets for about three years. He gives interviews all the time...
...official link with Red China but from their rough tactics and revolutionary chants, which resemble those once used by Chairman Mao's Red Guards. The Maoist technique: coordinated production tie-ups at key points to bring an entire department to a standstill. One day will see a flash strike in a mechanical-equipment shop, the next, a two-hour stoppage on the assembly line...
...midi skirt is ungainly, unflattering and unwarranted. But it is nonetheless a fashion fact. Rebellious consumers have raised voices, but the hemlines have stayed down: the fall collections include hardly a mini. Still, the new lengths offer compensations, sometimes by baring the bosom, often-in a sudden, gratuitous flash-by revealing the upper thigh. Zippers and buttons, snaps and laces-all open a variety of ways designed to persuade girls, and girl watchers, that all is not lost...
Ultimate in Zip. The wearer need only decide how much or how little she wants to reveal; fasteners will get her there in a flash. Sportswear Designer Anne Klein, determined "to give the customer the ultimate in zip," has done so with the ultimate in zippers-one that is so cleverly concealed by the material that the slash appears as if by magic and not by the mechanical gnashings of a hundred metal teeth. To ensure greater visibility, Klein styles feature side closings, and those that do not ride low on the hips lace like a corset above the waist...
From time to time, the members of the cast line up, face the audience and flash shy, charming smiles. They march a lot too, keeping time by smacking sticks and shaking tambourines. They love to pretend they are being birds and animals. If necessary, they will speak. But they prefer to sing, dance or grunt as they mime their mysterious little charades−a kind of show-and-mostly-don't-tell...