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...Objective: Girls. He arrived at Esalen in a silver Corvette. In the trunk, as Miller tells it, were "a properly scuffed Florentine leather suitcase, a gray-green but charmingly ineffective Olivetti, and a Cardin-imitation blue blazer bought at Barney's." Miller was to participate in Esalen's curriculum as a member of one of its residential programs. But his first objective was girls. Martha, Catherine, Sandra, Lorraine-all proved cooperative. What Miller did not count on was thai his sex life would become data for encounter sessions. Catherine told Martha that she did not enjoy going...
...idea is that these blazer-clad performers are just naturally bright and witty, able to ad-lib at precisely the right or occasionally the wrong time. Sometimes they dress up in funny costumes or become an encounter group, flinging insults, paper airplanes, even snowballs at each other. At program's end, while the credits roll, they all mill around the top banana's desk as if to continue the office party they had interrupted to go on camera. Much of this spontaneity is, of course, carefully scripted. And the journalistic japesters are heavily advertised with cornball photos...
...innovations were basic to the wardrobes of generations of women: jersey suits and dresses, the draped turban, the chemise, pleated skirts, the jumper, turtleneck sweaters, the cardigan suit, the blazer, the little black dress, the sling pump, strapless dresses, the trench coat. Sometimes, the determining factor was practicality: Chanel wore bell-bottom trousers in Venice, the better to climb in and out of gondolas, and started the pants revolution. Sometimes, it was purely accidental: after singeing her hair, she cut it off completely, made an appearance at the Paris Opera, and started the craze for bobbed hair. But always...
...work. And time for love," said Coco Chanel. "That leaves no other time." In the '20s, Chanel filled her off-hours with Arthur ("Boy") Capel, a wealthy English polo player whose lavish gifts of jewels served as the keystones of Coco's astonishing collection, and whose blazer -lent to the designer on a chilly day at the polo grounds-became the source of her famous box jacket. From the Duke of Westminster. Chanel's most renowned amour, came more jewels; these she had copied, setting off the costume-jewelry vogue. With a personal fortune rumored by then...
...house that is a local historical monument. He starts with a direct-mail offer of family crests on a parchment scroll. When he gets a nibble -some status-starved customers eagerly order as many as 50 scrolls-he sends off a catalogue listing family-tree plaques, blazer crests and family histories. "Anyone with a name and $2 is my market," he says. "I've always wanted a business of my own. I couldn't find the business I was looking for, so I invented...