'It was handwoven," says Kid Creole, grinning at his fedora, which tops off the sort of outfit that was his trademark in his 80s heyday: high-waisted trousers, box jacket with wide lapels, shirt with upright collar, thickly knotted tie, and two-tone shoes.
Although fewer people pay attention to Mario than during the platform genre's heyday, the high-pitched toilet technician continues to raise the bar with each entry.
Washington, D.C. — In the heyday of high finance, long before bailouts and TARP, bankers were not just buying yachts and mansions, they were donating lavishly to their senators too.
We recently talked about Milan's 80s heyday over high tea with Renata Molho, who spent the better part of that decade as a stylist for everyone who was anyone, and the 90s as one of the best fashion journalists in Italy.
Both shows center on canonical figures from minimalism's high heyday in the early sixties: Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Frank Stella.
It is almost certainly of prehistoric origins, but its heyday was the high middle ages, when it linked two of the greatest Cistercian abbeys in the land: Rievaulx and Byland.
Indeed, Ms. Crasset's playful and protean style recalls the heyday of the high-90's magazine Wallpaper, and its cheeky attitude toward design.
In its heyday, the original high-powered, sure-footed MINI Cooper S, usually painted racing red with a white roof, and equipped with studded tires, was a perennial Monte Carlo Winter Rally Champion, often prevailing against bigger, more powerful cars.
Even so, there is the creeping sense that the U.S. is leaving behind the low-inflation, high-growth, high-employment heyday of the last decade for uncertain territory.
The fortunes of Hammer in its heyday, the Sixties, were high.
Today, the amusement district is a shrunken five acres with only the skeletal remains of Coney Island's heyday: the 270-foot high Parachute Jump, the Cyclone roller coaster, the Wonder Wheel — all three are official city landmarks — and Nathan's hot dog stand.
