Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only 14 months ago, James W. Brady took his reputation for brass and innovation from Women's Wear Daily to Harper's Bazaar. He soon won the titles of publisher and editorial director and set out to shake the frilly fashion monthly to its lingerie. Brady replaced conventional models with recognizable people posing against busy street backgrounds to show how fashions would look outside the salon. Trouble was that this approach merely irritated many women readers who wanted to get a straight, uncluttered look at the clothes. He brought a daily newspaper's intensity to Bazaar...
...partisan issue: the G.O.P. also had a chairperson in Miami Beach. Thus another label comes unglued. The man and his woman are Out; the neuter "person" is In-and only the chair is allowed to linger undisturbed. Chairperson is just the latest exchange in that great linguistic bazaar where new terms are traded for old. The elderly "Mrs." and the shy "Miss" now curtsy to the crisp, swinging "Ms." "Congressone" has been suggested in federal corridors to replace the Congressman-woman stigma...
...contributions may be considerably more than indicated by the "Pennies for Heaven" box, which is a permanent fixture on the hill. The bulk of her supporters appear to be middle-income suburban whites from nearby Catholic parishes. In October there will be a mammoth "Festival of Hope" bazaar (grand prize: a station wagon), and in November the corporation will throw a grand charity ball at the Century Plaza in Los Angeles ($25 a head...
California, naturally, has produced the most spectacular bazaar of them all: an enormous affair conducted in the Rose Bowl, where bargain hunting now rivals football as the favorite sport. Every second Sunday in the month, year round, some 35,000 customers queue up outside the Bowl to pay the 50? that admits them to a day of offbeat shopping. Inside the stadium several hundred hawkers display their merchandise along the 50-ft.-wide walkway that circles the stadium. They have each rented booth space at $5, $10 or $15 (depending on location) to sell clothes, curios, antiques and all kinds...
...department store covering nearly a full block in eastern Peking, the East Wind Bazaar tells much about the daily life of Peking: its food habits, style trends, folk heroes, drinking habits and sex roles...