Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstration of savagery by the men who hold power, or covet it, in Syria. Prime Ministers have been shot and opponents of the regime have been killed in mass executions; two Jews, labeled Israeli spies, have been hanged-and their bodies left on display for the delectation of the bazaar crowds...
...extraordinary strength. Once a strictly trade journal unknown outside the industry, it has been converted under Fairchild's guidance into a lively, gossipy and bitchy newspaper of manners, trends and scandal. Though its circulation of 85,000 is far below that of Vogue (450,000) and Harper's Bazaar (440,000), it is clearly the most powerful and influential fashion journal in the U.S. It has become must reading for anyone connected with the fashion business, for journalists in search of story tips, and for members of the social set who want to know what's Up and what...
Unless she is rich and rangy, a young woman who curls up with Vogue or Harper's Bazaar is often tantalized by the sight of slender models wearing clothes beyond her budget in an opulent milieu that she can only dream of entering. If she bunks down with Rags, a new and determinedly iconoclastic fashion monthly, she will find people with bulges like her own, wearing clothes that she can afford, against backdrops as familiar as a brick wall...
...magazine, explains Publisher Baron Wolman, 33, is aimed at the young who regard fashion as "an opportunity for self-expression, fulfillment of little head trips, a chance to try something different, to break tradition and stereotype." Adds Editor Mary Peacock, 27, a former staffer at Harper's Bazaar: "Fashion is not fashionable any more. The slick magazines are always telling you how you should look. We do it the other way around. We report what people are wearing without trying to change them...