Word: californianism
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...although his location also makes him a natural for more fashionable members of the movie colony, such as Rosalind Russell, Arlene Dahl, Mrs. Robert Stack and Mrs. Kirk Douglas. He has a flair that strikes Italian designers like Emilio Pucci as quintessentially American. His trademark is an extravagantly Californian style: exuberant use of chiffon, bold sun colors such as orange and yellow, the revival of striking art nouveau prints. His magnificent "at home" wear this season includes $1,055 bead-encrusted beige-and-ginger-striped pajamas and a $1,700 gold-metallic chiffon burnoose with a jeweled...
...pleasant living of a city filled with color, palms and tropical breezes. Hurdling space in its voracious lust for land, defying time in its blinding bursts of change, Los Angeles nonetheless maintains an easy, vacation-like atmosphere that is foreign to the East. When Lincoln Steffens, a native Californian, visited the Soviet Union in 1917, he exclaimed: "I have seen the future, and it works." Retorts Author Clifton Fadiman, a confirmed Angeleno: "We have seen the future, and it plays...
ALLAN A. METCALF Daily Californian Berkeley...
...cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket as producer, director, narrator and promoter of documentary movies about the idle life...
...California Republicans, cheered by a poll showing Ronald Reagan well ahead in his race to unseat Democratic Governor Pat Brown, dropped $300,000 into the party coffers at a Los Angeles lovefest. Though the affair's main speaker was ex-Californian Richard M. Nixon, Reagan earlier announced that he did not need campaign help from outside the state-a message clearly meant to dissociate himself further from Barry Goldwater. "This campaign is for the people of California," said Reagan, "and I personally would like to keep it that...