Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...many of the save-the-coast people, a slender volume titled The Thin Edge, published in 1978 by Environmentalist Anne W. Simon, 66, is something of a bible. The book is an expansion of Simon's earlier No Island Is an Island, which dealt with the environmental ordeal of Martha's Vineyard, the island off Massachusetts on which she summers. In Edge, she writes: "In the last ten years, the coast's magnetic pull has become stronger than ever-more industry, more oil, more people, hotels, motels, boatels, more sewage, more waste. The coast is informing...
...upper four floors, Stutz in the early 1960s began selling the latest creations of young, and then unknown, designers such as Jean Muir, Sonia Rykiel and later, Mary McFadden. Then, in a move that shocked other retailers, she instructed them to design clothes that would fit only the slender. Bendel catered to women almost as thin as fashion models with dress sizes that ranged from 2 to 10. Instead of driving away business, the move gave the store a certain cachet. In 1979 Bendel earned $1.4 million on $15 million in sales...
...slender man dressed in a gray postal uniform rang the doorbell of an elegant $250,000 house in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., one morning last week. He brought two special delivery packages for the occupant, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, 49. As the balding Iranian bent over to examine them, the "mailman" killed him with three shots from a 9-mm pistol concealed in a sheaf of envelopes...
...years at Cambridge, the great don thereafter took his daily "stroll" forced-march style, a spartan, slender man of sorrowful visage with pale eyes and drooping gray mustache...
Patricia (Patti) Reagan, Reagan's first child by Nancy, is tall, slender, graceful and very shy. When an interview was scheduled, a Reagan campaign publicity aide insisted on sitting in (apparently Nancy Reagan wanted it that way). Her boarding school, the Orme School near Phoenix, was a place where students rode horses and tended cattle, but Patti also wrote poetry. "Serious poetry," she says. "I was a very serious person." Out of school, she devoted a lot of effort to writing rock songs. One of them, I Wish You Peace, was recorded by the Eagles. For the past year...