Word: capris
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...refused to modernize: as Iran's ex-Queen, she had imperiously insisted on top billing, and no star De Laurentlis approached would play second fiddle to an amateur. In private, Soraya's escort crisis was not so acute. She took off from Capri on a week-long yacht cruise with her real-life leading man, German Cinemactor Maximilian Schell...
...vanities of North Shore existence are exposed by the horrified savage-action painting and splintered Christianity, electro-dodecaphonic music and beat poetry, capri pants and cocktail parties. The peasant-savage finally flees to the jungle, having become a no-nonsense savage in the crucible of crumbling society. The girl follows on the wings of love: "Now my unquiet heart is at ease," she sings. "Nothing remains but ourselves and the trees." They seal their defection with a kiss-as native bearers carry the appliances of the fat life into their cave...
...maybe he won't have time to design women's fashions. Mr. Pucci seems to think that we American women will abandon the tops of our bathing suits. Hasn't he heard that we are all inhibited by Puritan ethics? Besides, if you wear his pocketless Capri pants, the only place left to carry money, cigarettes, etc. is in a bra or swimming-suit...
...maiden voyage on the Port Washington, L.I.-Wall Streen run. Departure time: 8:20 a.m. She was laden with suburban-dwelling executives, plus a tape recorder, individual transistor radios, an electric shaver, ship-to-shore telephone, champagne and high hopes. But on the planned 50-minute trip from Club Capri Marina to lower Manhatten, virtually nothing went right...
Italian Designer Emilio Pucci, 48, used to push pink, but that was before he went into politics. Visiting Manhattan, the originator of those skintight Capri pants had to hurry right home for last-minute speechmaking as a Liberal Party candidate for the Chamber of Deputies. "I am running, but I am not interested in the office," he said. "I just don't want people to vote Communist." Win or lose, Pucci was doing his bit for capitalism. His high-fashion models handed out bright silk scarves with the Pucci signature and the slogan "Vote Liberal"-and Florentines were peddling...