Word: chanelling
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...Continent. In both London and Paris, the green-stained wrist has become a mark of distinction. Among the wearers are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lord Snowdon, the Marquess of Bath (who thoughtfully sells the bracelets to sightseers at a souvenir stand outside his castle), Pierre Cardin, Coco Chanel and Stavros Niarchos. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, the eminent historian, has been wearing his bracelet for three or four years and says its effects are "frightfully good." He admits that his wrist turns green, but then "all that is part of the juju, what?" Lanning Roper, garden editor of London...
...very tricky," says Robert Newman, senior vice president of Bolt Beranek & Newman, a Cambridge, Mass., company specializing in acoustic engineering. "It would take a horrendous amount of noise to mask a supersonic transport airplane. Generating white noise to hide sounds above the annoyance level is like using Chanel No. 5 to hide the fact that you haven't had a bath for weeks...
Claude Cahour Pompidou stands 5 ft. 9 in. and is a designer's dream. Though in her 50s, she is trim, athletic, looks attractive in bathing suits and superb in high fashion outfits. Normally devoted to pantsuits from Courreges, she switches to Chanel for day clothes and to Dior, Saint Laurent, Cardin and Laroche for ball gowns...
...Chanel kept her hems right where they have always been, demurely covering the knee and, just by standing still, came out ahead of the game. Marc Bohan was not sure who was winning: so as not to offend either team, he showed see-through, midi-length chiffon evening dresses with minislips worn underneath. But it was Pierre Cardin who saved the day for leg fetishists with a series of long skirts that are almost as revealing as the mini, and even more alluring. The Cardin trick: a slit that runs from ankle to thigh, occurs either at the sides...
...work and no play. She gets little help. Andre Previn's score always misses, without ever swinging. Beaton's costumes are a slight modification of the timeless Edwardia that he prefers to inhabit, and scarcely reflect the spare Mondrian modern that is the mark of Chanel. Lerner's book manages to suggest a rough draft rather than a finished libretto. He must be somewhat chagrined that the biggest laugh of the evening comes when Hepburn spits out the short word for excrement...