Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyway. The magazine materialized last June. It's called Rags. A cheap number-40c-and a monthly, printed on plain of newsprint, it's unabashedly trying to make it just like a Rolling Stone. "As befits its name, Rags eschews the gloss of traditional fashion books," reports shiny-panted Time. Which is to suggest, perhaps unfairly, that in rejecting the slick road to fashion, Rags and Rolling Stone may have inadvertently established a duller shade of slick themselves...
During the 95-min. meeting, the President jotted notes on a yellow pad as the Congressmen spoke. They eschewed rhetoric in favor of a carefully prepared brief and a tough look at key issues. Representative Charles Diggs of Michigan, caucus chairman, stated in plain terms that the plight of the nation's blacks is so critical that an upswing in the economy alone will not significantly help them...
...Curtis Bok said long ago, "In the whole history of law and order, the longest step forward was taken by primitive men when, as if by common consent, the tribe sat down in a circle and allowed one man to speak at a time." The current insane abandonment of plain good manners calls for the tribe to make firm and quiet ejection of our disrupters...
...women looking for a house have considered more than 50 possible sites and have narrowed the choices to three-one in Jamaica Plain and two others within 20 minutes of Harvard Square. Each of the houses would cost about...
...rebuild it, she had silicone injections to fill out her cheeks and plastic surgery that lifted her upper eyelids but did nothing for her spirit. Hypnosis, yoga, cell implants and love affairs helped her morale, but by the end of one liaison Luciana realized, "I had really become very plain looking-almost nothing on my face, nothing on my nails, the most casual clothes." After another year during which she was "so bored I used to remove the hairs from my legs, one by one, with tweezers," Luciana went back to Rome to face facts and her mirror: beauty, after...