Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...badly that Real Madrid, European champion for five of the past ten years, has decided to tear down its cavernous Santiago Bernabeu Stadium and build a smaller one. Spaniards are turning to more expensive diversions and status symbols. Madrid now supports 19 legitimate theaters, plus a selection of chic new "theater clubs," exclusive establishments where the up-and-coming young businessman can be seen while he watches the show. Scores of elegant new restaurants and bars have opened in the past few years, and they are always packed to their polished oak rafters with an ever expanding jet set, whom...
...patronym. But, setting his sights on an Army career, he enlisted and persisted. By 1962, when he was 39, Sam Desist wore a major's gold oak leaf and was press officer for the U.S. Army at Orléans in France. Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah...
...Clear Day she plays a dual role as Daisy Gamble, a low-brow chick who gains highborn chic when she is hypnotized. With a nod of her head, she goes from side-of-da-mouth to elegant eighteenth century English, from bubble-gum popping to a low purr when crystal wouldn't melt in her mouth. The new voice seems less to be coming from her than through her-a ventriloquistic trick-but it provokes a growl of lusty approval from the audience. And that in itself is justification aplenty for Alan Jay Lerner to have paid Barbara...
After doing time on a drug rap, Chico comes home chastened, then stumbles into every conceivable temptation. His parents object to the company he keeps, so he moves in with a chic call girl, played by fiery Mexican Beauty Kitty de Hoyos, whose claim to fame loses nothing in translation. Because his hooker cannot support both him and her drug habit forever, Chico starts peddling heroin, ultimately resumes using...
Outwardly, there is little to distinguish Lady Jackson from any other chic Englishwoman with a disarming smile. She punctuates her conversation with "jolly," "bloody," and an ever-ready laugh, yet speaks in a torrent of determination when the subjects nearest to her are brought...