Word: runway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accents of color that the gold picks up and reflects, like the green fragments of beetle wings that peek out of a 19th century man's coat. Gharara, billowing pants favored by both men and women, have a sensuality that could liven up any ready-to-wear runway in Paris, although a contemporary designer might look for certain practical modifications. Some of the gharara at the Met are so long and wide that they trail behind the wearer and have to be carried like the trains of wedding gowns...
...female fashion model in a leather outfit struts down a makeshift runway in the auditorium at Roscoe Pound Hall. She sports a Russian-style cap terned with sparkles that spell out the afternoon's motif: "trendy...
...fact, students didn't know what they would be doing on the runway until shortly before the opening curtain, said Ritchie C. Banker '86, one of the models and a resident of Eliot House...
...practice was soon officially dubbed one of the Eight New Evil Winds* and eventually banned by the government. But fashion is still coming on strong in Chinese life, at least in the big cities. "It's fantastic," says Pierre Cardin, as eleven Chinese models sashay up a Peking runway in black silk dresses made for him in Shanghai...
...fighter raced off a runway at California's Edwards Air Force Base last Friday, soared to 35,000 ft., then launched an 18-ft.-long, two- stage rocket. At the same time, some 320 miles above the Pacific, an inoperative six-year-old satellite hurtled along at 17,000 m.p.h. A 35-lb. instrument package, no larger than a gallon can, separated from the rocket. Guided by infrared sensors that could detect the warmth of the satellite and powered by 64 tiny jet rockets, the cylinder closed in on its target. Zap! The two bodies collided at a combined speed...