Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone knows about Adam and Eve. Poets have told the story in rhyme, sculptors in stone. It has been dramatized, analyzed, synthesized and choreographed. But Genesis is hardly chic, and the fashion industry found Women's Wear Daily a more inspiring Bible. Until this month anyway, when Harper's Bazaar had its newest contributing editor take a look at the book. Gloria Guinness is the wife of a British banking tycoon, No. 2 on the Best-Dressed List, and has the sort of detachment that comes from being a woman who does not care what it costs...
...Hour turns up a decade or two late. An old-helmet romantic drama about occupied France, it has Simone Signoret as the chic Parisienne who is drawn into the Resistance movement by the irresistible U.S. flyer (Stuart Whitman). Together they make their way to a bittersweet parting at the Spanish border, along an underground route as familiar as the Champs-Elys...
...during a state visit to Yugoslavia, where his chic daughter Galina stole the show, Brezhnev embarrassed the government by making a violent attack on the U.S. at a time when Washington was pondering renewal of its aid program to Tito...
...Eyed Look, achieved with the aid of mascara, eyebrow pencil, eye liner and eye shadow, has been around for a while. But until recently, only show girls admitted to wearing false eyelashes, and they, poor things, are a notoriously shameless lot. Now, astonishingly, false eyelashes have been declared chic. And not only chic, but essential. Overnight, beauty salons have engaged eyelash "falseticians" who, for an average price of $5, will measure and trim the customer's falsies as well as instruct her on how to apply and remove them...
...most curious and original writers in the U.S. today, John Cheever continues to be underestimated. The Wapshot Chronicle received the National Book Award. But Cheever is neither chic nor shocking, and no critical claque inflates his reputation. He is neither politically opinionated nor a Freudian, and the sex he celebrates is freakishly normal, occurring at its best in the connubial...