Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, with the departure of Nicole Alphand, party-giving wife of the former French ambassador, the Spanish and Venezuelan embassies have become the chic places to go, and Latin fare has leaped into prominence. The favorites: esponjoso, a rich, caramel-covered confection that delighted Lady Bird when she sampled it at the Venezuelan embassy, and pisio, a Spanish vegetable concoction similar to the French ratatouille...
...waste. On a different level, there is immeasurable wasted energy in bureaucracy, both in Government and in private business. There is waste of time, if nothing else, in the innumerable non-books published and in countless empty entertainments. Some modern puritans see shocking waste in the fees paid to chic hairdressers or in the salaries handed to television comedians, which includes paying them not to perform for somebody else. But it would take an intolerable regime of tyrannical bookkeepers to determine which activities, which pleasures, are wasteful and which are useful...
...Stop that girl!" the bank dicks bellow as one man, but by the time they reach the exit, the chic chick-and $60,000-have vanished in the crowd...
...Eeeeeeeeeek!" the teller screams, and moments later the bank guards converge on the ladies room with revolvers drawn. The door bursts open, and out bolts a chic chick who looks as though the Loch Ness monster had just popped out of the drain...
...With these rewards, cave exploring will never be a chic sport. But its devotees measure enjoyment in inches...