Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointed-toe look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor made a fortune amputating little toes, gradually gave way to a rounder toe before blunting off altogether into this year's square look. Once into the shoes, only the problem of walking on the ever-so-chic, sliver-thin heels remained. This season, a comfortable look in women's shoes emerged. The low-heeled, easy-fitting shoe is not only in: it seems to be in for the foreseeable future...
...after she was properly introduced to international society with a $250,000 blowout at the Country Club of Detroit, and following art classes in Florence, Charlotte Ford, 20, self-starting daughter of Automaker Henry Ford II, came to Manhattan for the best of everything. Hired to help separate the chic from the gauche for the prestigious decorating firm of McMillen Inc., the shapely new Ford breadwinner will toil a five-day (9t05) week, room with two friends in an upper East Side apartment. "Miss Ford," announced her socialite boss, Eleanor Brown, "will have equal rank with our staff members...
Although Peterson's satire seems superficially too chic to be serious and too detached to touch reality, his criticisms of society have elegant little teeth. He deals with the press, fallout, anxiety, pomposity, and man's existential state in the manner of a gentle Fellini; the eye of his fly, like Fellini's camera, sees the absurd everywhere, the difference between Peterson and Fellini being that Peterson can't get so upset about...
...Washington's most fashionable genre artists, chic Lady Caccia, wife of departing British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia, unveiled a favorite essay in oils. Setting of the painting: the swimming pool at the rented Virginia summer estate of New York's Senator Jacob Javits. Lady Caccia's model: the spouse of Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper, sun-shy Lorraine Cooper, who totes a pastel parasol even when campaigning with her husband in the backwoods...
...network of pipes and valves from which issue alarming gurgles and lukewarm, pale-beige water. The main attraction of the house is its distance from the crowded resorts at Cannes and Juan-les-Pins and its proximity to the swimming, sunning and water skiing at the Riviera's chic Eden Roc beach...