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Word: chic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooms, five TV sets), Kintner Cadillacs to work in the RCA Building by 8:10 each morning, spends at least half of his twelve-hour day group-thinking with the network committees populated by his 39 vice presidents. Few below NBC's top level know Kintner; unlike his chic, gregarious wife Jean, 42, he is not fascinated by his on-camera employees, rarely attends company parties for talent. He keeps a neat, boomerang-shaped desk in an office adorned by a mottled abstract, a wifely gift that he describes as "either an oil geyser or a quiz show going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Ultimate Responsibility | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...cousin but proclaimed rival of Spain's Antonio Tapies (TIME, March 16). Cuixart makes elegant mudpies, the blackest and heaviest in the notably gloomy Spanish exposition. Black may always be in fashion, especially in Spain. Yet the spirit of Goya is clearly not with Cuixart. He makes despair chic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sao Paulo Harvest | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) who grows up with a case of the loves for the millionaire boss' younger son, David Larrabee (William Holden). He doesn't know she exists, but when Audrey returns from an hilarious interlude at a Parisian cooking school, sporting a tight hairdo and chic black dress, Holden wakes up and starts requiting...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Sabrina | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...kind of figure he cuts in the arena. His qualities are personal, and they come out of suffering. A face is only interesting when it reveals that it has experienced something, that it has been shaped by life and love. So with a painting. If it reveals only a chic, decorative exuberance, or only taste and elegance, its interest will be ephemeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Inside & Out | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Yvette Hennig Ward is a chic and vigorous woman of 48 whose specialty for years has been refurbishing the 63 regional offices of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow with the classy décor suited to the world's biggest manufacturer of advertising calendars and novelties. Last week Yvette Ward got the chance to use her woman's talent for refurbishing on an even grander scale. A week after the death of her husband, B. & B.'s President Charles A. Ward, she moved into his place as president. Hardly had she slipped her trim, horsewoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: New Calendar Girl | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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