Word: audrey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge ball gowns, several of them striped in muted colors. Those who expected him to trash Givenchy's history were wrong. Among daytime clothes were several homages to the old master: suits with belted jackets, one charming dress with little bows on the four pockets. Galliano even co-opted Audrey Hepburn, naming a sleek, black gown...
...chosen to revitalize Givenchy by Bernard Arnault, president of LVMH, which owns not only that house but also Lacroix and Dior. It was time, Arnault had decided, to put Hubert de Givenchy out to pasture. The aristocratic designer ran an admirable house for 43 years, and in dressing Audrey Hepburn he gave the world one of its great fashion icons. But Arnault wanted a radical update. His move was not popular, yet Arnault is given credit even by his detractors for being a true believer in couture, traditionally considered the prestige leader that drives sales of perfume and licensed paraphernalia...
...perspective of a bewildered outsider, not quite sure whether to be excited or exasperated by the science-fictive surfaces of that alien world. The second is that they find a focus for their mingled fascination and frustration in an unfathomable Japanese love object. The gracious and redeeming delight of Audrey Hepburn's Neck (Pocket Books; 290 pages; $21), a first novel by Alan Brown, an American, is that it turns all the standard tropes--and expectations--on their head by presenting Japan from the inside out, and yet with a sympathetic freshness that most longtime expatriates have long ago abandoned...
Brown evokes the sleek surrealism of Tokyo--where dogs are rented by the hour and people eat green-tea tiramisu cake--with economical aplomb. Even better, he offsets such Tomorrowland aspects with lyrical images of Toshi's rural home, where women eat grilled eel while watching Audrey Hepburn and go looking for candleweed and ghost mushrooms. Toshi is as much a foreigner in Tokyo as any American might be, yet his two worlds are knit together with an exacting precision, with fishermen's nets "the color of dried persimmon," and an American's blanket having "the color of squid just...
...order to avoid a tough confirmation battle, President Clinton is unlikely to appoint a new candidate for Surgeon General this year. Discounting the importance of the unfilled post, Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry says Clinton is happy with the work of Deputy Surgeon General Audrey Manley...