Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief seizure of bourgeois conformity, Painter Pablo Picasso, 79, nipped into the chic St. Tropez to outfit daughters Paloma, 12, and Catherine, 13, in the Riviera's latest de rigueur-narrow green slacks and embroidered tops. Though the girls consider themselves sisters, they stem from unrelated branches of the cubistic Picasso family tree. Paloma is by Painter Françoise Gilot, Catherine by Picasso's wife's first husband...
...goateed detective of the U.S. comic strips was trying to solve a wave of Riviera art heists, a band of thieves last week made off with the biggest haul of masterpieces in modern French history: 57 canvases lifted off the unguarded, uninsured walls of the Annonciade Municipal Museum in chic Saint-Tropez. Value of the fric-frac, as a robbery is known in France: $1,500,000, including Matisses, Derains, Dufys, Vlamincks and a pair by Dunoyer de Segonzac, curator of the museum, who was away at the moment to supervise a big show of his own works in Geneva...
Last week Ekaterina (Khrushchev calls her Katya) dropped into London for a visit, and it was obvious that the Russian ideal was changing. Down 15 Ibs. (from 150), her ash-blonde hair brushed back in a casual sweep, newly chic in a slim, turquoise linen suit, Katya asked the curious women reporters who greeted her at the airport: "What do you think I should wear to dine with an earl...
Before the Overseers met, a Harvard junior attracted a gathering in front of Widener to bemoan the abandonment of Latin. The group marched on the President's house in good spirits and heard Pusey quip. "What's pet in Latin/ Or chic in Greek,/I always distinguish/More clearly in English." The 2000 students paraded around the Square for a while, then went home...
...Ligon: "The look is going to be the easy-to-wear one. There was a season, a couple of years ago, where fashions could hardly be worn, much less sold. Now the costume dress is in, with a lot of glitter. And the little black dress is back-simple, chic and pretty as can be. I couldn't be happier...