Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many others wear Chanel suits in Paris and New York. She never wears shorts ("You have to be a girl to wear shorts; nobody but a child looks right in them"). In her early Palm Beach days, in fact, Gloria was torn by a dilemma. A dress was too chic for downtown wear, she decided, and of course shorts wouldn't do. "So I appeared on Worth Avenue in trousers from Capri." Suddenly everybody was wearing Capri pants, and "suddenly they became vulgar. In a way, I am to blame for all that happened...
Tender Is the Night (20th Century-Fox) is a good movie that had every reason to be bad. The novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald on which the film is based is a miracle of literary chic; it reads as if written in expensive perfume on the stationery of the Ritz. But literary style can't be photographed, and in other respects the novel is sort of a mess. The plot is often gappy and sometimes sappy; the characters are superficially silly and fundamentally unreal. The intellectual apparatus of the tale-a compendium of cocktail party chatter about psychiatry...
...Augean Stables (formerly called the University Theatre, and now the Harvard Square Theatre -- or HST for most, and non-U T for a few) have, at length, been thoroughly cleansed: what was once dirty, gilt, down-at-the-heels and 90c a shot is now sparkling, Spartan, chic...
After a publicity-winning preview sale to her perennial Palm Beach hostess, Rose Kennedy, chic Helene Arpels, fiftyish, a regular titlist in the world's ten-best-dressed-women stakes, opened to the public a gemlike boutique in Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel. Located just two blocks from where her estranged husband, Louis Arpels of Van Cleef & Arpels, traffics in tiaras, the new establishment stocks such exotica as 17th century quill pens with ballpoint nibs ($13.45) and square-toed velvet bedroom slippers for men ($24). Cooed Mme. Arpels, gesturing at the merchandise with a ring-finger diamond that...
...picture starts out as a naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...