Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hollywood Chic. The harpsichord boom is concentrated in college towns and big cities. Los Angeles had two 20 years ago (one of them was Sigmund Romberg's), now there are more than 30. José Ferrer and Edie Adams each have one as the newest thing in Hollywood chic. Pomona's retired English Professor Harlan Smedley, 53, who plays a harpsichord as "a countermeasure to all the tensions and noisiness of the day," thinks that "you can't be a pest on a harpsichord." Most harpsichord buffs are piano players who discovered baroque music on LPs; once...
Despite the claims of such chic newcomers as Spoleto, Europe's two most important music festivals remain Salzburg and Bayreuth. As they opened last week-Bayreuth with new productions of all four operas of Richard Wagner's Ring, and Salzburg with a new Festspielhaus reputed to be the world's most technically advanced theater-both festivals were musically still far ahead of most other summer fare, but seemed disappointing compared to the success of past seasons...
...recent week two of Cosi's blackhabited staffers sat among the smartly dressed buyers at a high-fashion show in Rome. As the models in chic suits, lowcut evening gowns and bathing suits walked by, the sisters, looking a bit like ravens at a parade of cockatoos, exchanged expert opinions, took precise notes. After the showing, they stepped into Cosi's staff car, a blue Fiat, and drove away to their walled convent on Rome's southern side. There they produced a sprightly and authoritative review of the latest modes...
...very expensive: "Suddenly, with clothes going soft and guileful," cried Vogue, "the beauty aspect is changing from cosy-natural to smooth-as-sapphire." Harper's Bazaar personified it in a Golden Girl: "Blithe spirit, her skin the beige of beaches," dressed in "14-carat comfort, 14-carat chic." What was exciting them was the new effort to add elegance to the casual look of the American woman. Sportswear for milady has never been more abundant, more nearly priced for every pocketbook, more durable, or made more suitable for 24-hour wear. It also emphasizes the bare look...
Accompanied by his chic French wife Christiana, Matta set up housekeeping in a native hut. A slight (barely 100 Ibs.) man with bristling black hair and piercing eyes, he had a strange way with the wild animals-antelopes, buffaloes, lions, elephants-that were his charges, walked fearlessly among the wildest and greatest beasts. He always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam...