Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next day Lyndon and Hubert and their entourage crisscrossed the city tirelessly, ebulliently, paying calls at receptions and parties that seemed to be glowing everywhere, like so many hearthsides on a winter's day. There was a good deal of social handicapping about which ones were the really chic occasions (among the leaders: a joint reception given by Philanthropist Mary Lasker and Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, parties thrown by Gwen Cafritz and Perle Mesta...
...bounce, it is inevitably Moreau who catches him. The minx with a perpetual moue, she sings, dances, suddenly flashes her searchlight smile over an unpromising patch of script-and the lost art of ultrasophisticated comedy springs to life on the instant. She seems more assured than ever as a chic dissembler who has hung by her fingernails through many a tight squeak. As one swindle takes shape, she dryly murmurs to Belmondo: "Be there at 3:08 sharp-I'll be working without a net." Working together, they prove again that one sure way to fill out a meager...
...that sentence is gimmicky, it is only an appropriate way to treat the latest movie version of Ian Fleming's neo-westerns. Our fascination is with an affluence grown absurd as, conditioned by an increasing freedom to travel and spend, we gladly escape into the chic byways and boudoirs of a luxury world...
...Algeria, leaving Genevieve pregnant. When she doesn't hear from him, she lets her mother marry her off to a sober young jewel merchant. One Christmas time years later, the lovers meet again briefly and find themselves virtual strangers. Genevieve is now a chic, prosperous Parisienne. Guy has acquired a pleasant wife, a son, and an Esso station he can call...
...crack shot, capable equestrienne and "dear friend of Coco Chanel's," Mrs. Butler has a passion for Paris clothes, wears long hostess gowns or pants suits for quiet evenings at home. In fact, evening pants, designed and priced high by Pucci, Chanel and imitators, are almost intimidatingly chic in salons from San Francisco to New York, where no one sets them off with more distinction than Mrs. Denise Bouche, former Vogue editor and widow of Painter Rene Bouche...