Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something sparkling and appropriate for an embassy reception or dinner at the Colony-done in the elegant American style. Counsels Vogue's Diana Vreeland: "The days of fashion dictatorship are dead as mutton. Each of us has the opportunity for everything -to dress with individuality, suitability, gaiety, comfort, chic. You have only to take the opportunity-to use the New York collections for all they are worth...
Modesty Blaise, based loosely on the adventures of a British comic-strip heroine, presumably intends to poke fun at the James Bond school of chic, sexy savagery. The damage done to the chosen target is negligible, but this parroty parody adds up to a near disaster. Assuming a knowing superiority over its prototypes, Modesty is less a spoof than a limp-wristed kind of fairy tale, witlessly cluttered up with homosexual malice, artsy gift-shop decor, and the same old gaggy gadgetry on which the Bondsmen have patents pending...
...cult still has expansive holdings, but it long ago misplaced both its proselytizing and promotional zeal. The House of David's barnstorming baseball team, its most renowned attraction for 25 years, was disbanded back in 1937. Also gone are Chic Bell's bearded touring musicians. The colony's picturesque Benton Harbor amusement park once attracted 200,000 visitors a year, now draws fewer than 30,000. So depleted are the ranks that outsiders have to be hired to operate the shabby House of David Hotel in downtown Benton Harbor. Sighs pigtailed Tom Dewhirst, 58, head...
...chic in Greek...
...Undress a chic woman," says Perma Lift bras, undressing one partially for most of a page, "and what do you see?" Chrysler equates its cars with amorous success. And Howard clothes boasts that it makes clothes "for men who make love" and "men who make babies...