Word: bazaars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buyer for Henri Bendel: "This year there are a jillion different looks for the leg." The re-emergence of the leg results partly from the new, bigger, fuller skirts and dresses that require attention be paid to the underpinnings. Says Fashion Editor Elsa Klensch of Harper's Bazaar: "No doubt of it, the leg has come back as the center of interest. For years we covered them up with pants. Now they're back, and they...
...Koran and that they are enforced is not necessarily a deterrent. When a Jeddah merchant left a crate of gold unguarded on the airport tarmac for two weeks, a Somali airport employee found the temptation too much. He began filching gold bars and selling them in the bazaar. Police caught him in the act and he was sent back to Somalia-minus one hand...
...important, Spoleto U.S.A. received local pledges of $200,000 toward the $850,000 cost of the first season. Many proper Charlestonians. however, had doubts at the beginning, and a few still do. They are fond of their city as it is and well aware that an annual cultural bazaar like Spoleto can overwhelm a small city -the jazz festival engulfed Newport, R.I., for years. Nor were Charlestonians reassured by reports that some money raised in the U.S. was to be set aside for the Italian festival. That was initially a problem, concedes Menotti, but the misunderstanding has been resolved...
...Brady. A onetime Marine lieutenant, he started out as an advertising writer for Macy's, worked his way up at Fairchild Publications until he was publisher of Women's Wear Daily, then quit to become editorial director and publisher of Harper's Bazaar. There he stirred things up with a new approach to fashion photography that involved action and realism but unfortunately obscured the clothes. Readers objected, and he was fired a year later, in 1972. As a freelancer before joining Murdoch in 1974, Brady wrote for New York and even played third base on the magazine...
...become engrossed admiring the approaching scenery and to ignore one's fellow passengers--dispirited, unromantic, impoverished North African laborers. It's tempting to affect an eighteenth-century gentleman merchant's self-esteem when brought mint tea and invited to inspect carpets and bolts of silk in a Moroccan bazaar. But the rotting garbage in the streets is probably more typical of the real East. And to queries about the nature of those mysterious blue crystals in the burlap sack, the reply, translated, will be: "Detergent...