Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the decline and fall of last year's bouffant hairdo, women suffered a serious loss of stature. They were told by reassuring hairdressers that it was more chic to be close-cropped, and advised by the fashion magazines simply to develop a longer neck to offset the loss in head height. But women, who like old tenements are apt to crumble at the very concept of major renovation, found a more gradual way of making do. Where once there had been hair, let there...
Despite the considerable competition of the queenly Cunarders, the chic French liners and the efficient U.S. Lines, Italy dreams fondly of the day when its liners will dominate transatlantic passenger service. The state-owned Italian Line, which already ranks second on the North Atlantic run (after Cunard), is working hard to make that dream a reality. Hit by the loss of 31 of its 37 vessels in World War II and the national tragedy of the Andrea Doria disaster in 1956, it came back by building the Cristojoro Colombo and the Leonardo da Vinci in the 19505, six months...
Then there were the customers and friends of the designer, the chic nameless women whose patronage often still accounts for as much as half a couturier's profit, who stepped out of chauffeur-driven limousines with cool, perfumed disdain, pulling sables close about them. For thern^ invitations were not generally required; they had their checkbooks in hand. The press representing the smaller papers kept to the backs of rooms, appeared pink-cheeked and pleasant, proved deadly when cornered ("Out of my way!" shrieked one Midwest reporter caught in an entrance crush, delivering side jabs and bloody noses with...
...York children are no longer interested in hot dogs, hamburgers or toasted cheese sandwiches for party fare. "Today it's the omelet period." reports Caterer Rudolph Stanish. "They've become the chic thing, either plain or a combination of bacon, caviar, mushrooms, something like that. The six-year-olds prefer tiny jelly omelets." He sighed: "And. of course, there is always some child who will request a truffle." Stanish, whose parties can handle from 60 to 150 children and can cost anywhere from $35 to $500, often provides a dance team (who twist and then teach...
Omar's dazzling teeth are his own, but his name is not. He is actually Maechel Shalhoub. Years ago, planning ahead toward international fame, he guessed correctly that to Western ears there was no chic-of-Araby in the sound of Shalhoub. He thought, he says, of Omar Khayyam and Omar Bradley, both familiar names several thousand miles west. He may also have thought of Matt Dillon and Gary Cooper. At any rate, he entered his profession as Omar Sharif...