Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject was miniskirts, and her judgment was that "never in the history of fashion have so many illusions been destroyed in so short a time." Such sentiments were catnip both to the readers of Harper's Bazaar and to the judges of the first annual Magazine Awards given jointly by the J. C. Penney Co. and the University of Missouri. The panel awarded a $1,000 prize in the fashion and beauty category to stylish Stout-Heiress Gloria Guinness, 53, for her article in the June 1966 Bazaar deploring the "short, short, short skirt" as "that crazy young look...
Wall posters depicted a gargantuan Arab crushing a tiny Israel beneath his boot. Khaki was the predominant color among the milling crowds in the souk (bazaar). Most of those in the street seemed to be either policemen, soldiers, or members of one or another of Syria's plethora of paramilitary organizations, ranging from the "Volunteer People's Army" to the Futtawa youth corps...
Says Harper's Bazaar Editor Nancy White, "everyone in the business has to read Women's Wear every...
...feathers whipped up by the designer known as Erte. He also created the lavish sets and languid costumes, trimmed with serpentine curlicues, that made some Metropolitan Opera productions beggar those of today. From 1915 to 1938, the lithe chiffon-draped mademoiselles that graced the covers of Harper's Bazaar were largely the work...
...amount of warning, however shrill, ever quite prepares a people for the air-raid siren's scream. The first wail is always difficult to believe. In Cairo, last week, it scarcely disturbed the morning bustle of the bazaar, or the gossip of black-clad women clucking along the banks of the muddy Nile. No matter that only the night before, President Gamal Abdel Nasser had welcomed Iraq to the Egypto-Jordanian alliance against Israel, and proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face...