Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood of disengagement was even more pronounced in the republic's second city, Santiago (pop. 75,000). There, last week, the movie houses were packed, and a chic fashion show drew a capacity crowd. Well-stocked shops were doing a bustling business, Rotarians held their regular dinner at the downtown Hotel Mercedes, the local civic band played its customary Sunday-afternoon concert in the park, and the binational Dominican-American Center held its usual graduation ceremony for the students who had been learning English...
Dark Green Chic. The ideal woman, as she emerges from the pages of the fashion magazines, combines fashion with journalistic flair, beauty with chic; the staffers rather desperately try to live up to such perfection, and the magazines like to dwell, a trifle narcissistically, on their own staffs. Mademoiselle recently described the office of Editor in Chief Betsy Blackwell: "Dark green, warmly cluttered with antiques, and softly lighted by a crystal chandelier, the bower exudes the feminine yet decisive personality of its occupant." Some of Glamour's editors model for the magazine as well as edit; the most successful...
...amoral heroine, Julie Christie offers her polished surface to the camera in a chic, showy performance that floods nothingness with light. When she entertains a bid from Harvey, walking barefoot atop a boardroom conference table in tantalizing finery, Christie evokes an image of corruption that might well tempt a gentleman to corporate risks. She is the apotheosis of trumped-up celebrity, an authentic contemporary creature whose every misstep makes thousands leer. Because her passions are only skin-deep, her tragedy is trivial. But at every toss of her blonde mane, every shard of a smile, all else on the screen...
Down the street from Cykman's main salon is a larger competitor: Design Thai, which is financed by the Rockefeller brothers' International Basic Economy Corp. and masterminded by chic Jacqueline Ayer, 33, a Negro from New York, who came to Bangkok by way of Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Vogue magazine (for which she was a fashion illustrator). She worked out methods for printing intricate designs on Thai silk, imported tailors and pattern makers from Hong Kong, and put 60 local girls to work sewing. Says she: "I designed on the run-in planes, taxis...
...Look Homeward, Angel Tom Wolfe, not by fifty gallons of corn pone, but a well-mannered young fellow from Richmond, with long brown hair floating down both sides of a pale, round face that looks more like 24 than 34. This is a Wolfe in chic's clothing: off-white suit, lemon-colored tie, brown-and-white pin-stripe shirt with French cuffs, wine-colored silk handkerchief puffing out of the jacket pocket-when he gets dressed up, in short, he looks like a well-polished Pierce-Arrow...