Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Badenweiler, are known as Gesellschaftsbäder, or social spas, because patrons go there more for the crowd than the cure. Nearly all the spas advertise cures for the capitalist ailment known deferentially as Manager-Krankheit, the manager's disease. Says the owner of Baden-Baden's chic Bellevue Hotel, where Greta Garbo stayed through July without stirring a flicker of recognition: "With these rich people, all they really want is to recuperate from their last recuperation...
Then began the rumors about a "contessa," said to have a chic New York apartment; Ford reportedly flew in to see her now and then. On one occasion, the story went, the two appeared at a top Manhattan restaurant only to be told by the headwaiter that no tables were available. When Henry insisted on being seated, the maitre d'hótel was forced to whisper that Daughter Charlotte was dining inside...
...Warfield's arena was the doll-house dance floor of the exclusive Princesse, one of the 50 discothèques that currently preside over Parisian night life. La Princesse is a definitive discothèque-a private-unless-we-know-you bar that is smoky, chic and expensive...
Since the fad images of today are the square, the splotch and the soup can, it may seem that the only painters working with landscape are those daubing billboards to hide it. One who does not think that landscapes are old-fashioned is Jane Wilson, 39, a slim, chic former fashion mannequin who is personally as modern and vivacious as a girl in a Pepsi-Cola ad. Her recent landscapes and even newer cityscapes, which went on display last week at Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy Gallery, are suffused with such sunny fragrance that the New York Times...
...Mussolini, You're Mrs. Sweeny, You're Camembert. Back in 1935, when Cole Porter's Anything Goes was the hottest ticket in town, Margaret Whigham Sweeny was more Top than Mickey Mouse or a Coolidge dollar. Chic, beautiful and rich in her own right, the 21-year-old English beauty was married to Gentleman Golfer Charles Sweeny, for whom, the gossip columnists insisted, she had jilted the young Earl of Warwick. That same year Ian Campbell made headlines by taking as his second wife Louise Vanneck. daughter of U.S. Sculptor Henry Clews. (His first: Janet Aitken. Lord...