Word: bons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Cyril Ritchard, 79, Australian-born actor, singer and director best known for his portrayal of Captain Hook in Peter Pan; of a heart attack; in Chicago, where he had been appearing in the musical Side by Side by Sondheim. A courtly, mellifluous-voiced bon vivant, Ritchard began in 1917 as a chorus boy in Sydney, played everything from Restoration comedy to modern farce in Britain, Australia and on Broadway. "I've seen so much illness and suffering," he once said, "why inflict more? My job is to make people grin a bit and see the joke...
Safire less frequently bashes Republicans, but he has publicly disowned Spiro Agnew for his anti-Semitism and criticized Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for encouraging rebellion among Iraq's Kurds and then refusing to aid them. A slick stylist with a sweet tooth for bon mots, Safire resisted obvious puns on the Kurds but drops groaners like "Zbig Government," and "Yamani or ya life...
...attended a $500-per-head prix fixe dinner; the Duke of Bedford's bashes; and sundry Sotheby sales, where the rich auction off their baubles. One millionaire Demarest met lived on the ocean liner Ile de France-crossing and recrossing the Atlantic. Demarest speculates that the eccentric bon vivant, keeping up with the times, now lives aboard a Concorde. "Of the newly rich people I have known, few seemed really fulfilled," says Demarest. "Others compete for what they have and are, but the rich have already won. Those of us who are distinctly unrich can console ourselves with Ruskin...
...Angeles and rose again on his Aunt Delia's recipe for guess-what. Thanks to salivating promotion, he is baking six tons of his Famous Amos cookies each week at a factory in Nutley, N.J., and his original shop on Sunset Boulevard; the chewy entremets are sold in bon ton stores from Bloomingdale's to Neiman-Marcus, J.L. Hudson's to Robinson...
...windows also reflect the kinky trend. In Cambridge, the Camel's Hump boutique displayed a dead woman, blood running from her mouth, tumbling out of a garbage can. Men's shoes ("We'd Kill For These") were placed on her head and neck. Last fall, a Bon wit Teller window in Boston featured a woman dragging a female body wrapped...