Word: beau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moral philosophy at Glasgow; and author in 1759 of a philosophical treatise, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. A bachelor, Smith relied on his mother and a maiden cousin to keep house; if any love affairs ever distracted him from his studies, they have gone unrecorded. "I am a beau in nothing but my books," he once remarked, while showing off his 3,000-volume library to a friend...
...that no one ever did. A great part of its huge, shambling appeal is that The Wind and the Lion is made not in reverence for old movies but rather from a romantic distortion of them. Everything is outsized, scaled even larger than the heroics in Gunga Din or Beau Geste: soldiers are still braver, sheiks more dashing, the heroine more spiritual and loving...
...bustling managing director of J. Dege & Sons (est. 1865), "we realized that we had to change our ogre image and our whole concept of marketing. We had to be more forthcoming, with clothes that would sell themselves." The result has been perhaps the greatest turnaround in English tailoring since Beau Brummell first sported trousers instead of breeches. At a spring fashion show-the first in its history-the 200-member Federation of Merchant Tailors presented a new London look called "the Delta line." The collection consists of nearly 40 models for town, country, leisure, travel, the tropics, evening wear...
What ensues is not outrage, vituperation or divorce, but smug Shavian homilies on the double standard and the right of women to economic self-determination. Incontestable Constance takes a job as an interior decorator and decamps for a six-week fling with an ardent old beau...
Jackie (Julie Christie), George's ex-girlfriend, is a sexy blonde who rides the Mercedes-Benz sportscar and wears the resplendent rings she receives from Lester (Jack Warden), an elderly, buffoon-like corporate executive, her beau of the moment. Lenny's aging wife Felicia (Lee Grant) is trying to fight off the years and deny her wrinkles by sleeping with George. Meanwhile, George becomes friendly with Lenny through Felicia, who introduces the two in the hope that her husband will give her lover a business loan. All the while George's steady girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) slumps around with...