Word: cardinization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the second match in a week, the show biz season was off to a walloping start. Marlon Brando's hand was no sooner on the mend after an encounter with a persistent Manhattan photographer than some of the staff of Designer Pierre Cardin's Paris theater took on a passel of paparazzi. They wanted to catch Marlene Dietrich, a camera-shy 68, during her curtain calls. When Dietrich said no, French fists flew. Critics remembered Dietrich's last appearance 11 years before-with some of the same songs...
...Guild of America against movie and television producers and the three major networks, both sides assumed the bemused air of adversaries in a genteel farce. Executives at Disney studios provided storage for picket signs in their conference room. Some writers reported to the picket line outfitted by Gucci and Cardin. One rain-shy striker arrived outside 20th Century-Fox and defiantly lofted his picket sign through the slightly open window of his Rolls-Royce...
With expectations so high, the talks had begun in a kind of unreal, Hellzapoppin' atmosphere. Journalists camped outside the ornate U.S. embassy residence (a former Rothschild mansion), waiting for the American team to emerge. Inside, an uncomfortable-looking Marine-improbably disguised in a Cardin suit-stood guard at the door to Kissinger's bedroom. Early in the week, motorcycle-borne photographers had tracked the negotiators' limousines in a wild cross-country pursuit to their secret meeting place in the Paris exurb of Gif-sur-Yvette: a two-story, tile-roofed villa. A gallery of photographers...
...been searching for a villa in Europe, McGovern remarked: "That's where the oil-depletion money goes." He even assailed Connally's $300 suits-an ambiguous campaign issue. While it is true that McGovern pays less than $200 for his suits, his running mate wears Pierre Cardin suits and has been on the best-dressed list...
...special border-zone agreement with the U.S. allowed American manufacturers to assemble components in Mexico at a cost low enough for them to match overseas competition. An extension of Tijuana's duty-free port status encouraged shopkeepers to expand their inventories of French perfumes, Pucci and Cardin fashions, Limoges china and English woolens...