Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspiration for a nuptial garment: a white body stocking worn under a diaphanous floor-length veil embroidered in flowers. But that was nothing compared with the outfit that Liz wore to the opening-a tunic and tights of hyperkinetic geometric pattern. "She's not supposed to be chic," explained Mia. "Her career requires that she be stupefying...
...scandal involves a high-society prostitution ring that catered to the top echelon of Lisbon's social, business and political set. Operating almost under Salazar's nose, the girls worked out of a seemingly innocent dress shop on Lisbon's chic Avenida Roma. Many of them were teen-agers and even younger, and, according to Portuguese officials, they performed for their clients most of the tricks and perversions known to pornographic literature...
Like all revolutions, it began, as Coco Chanel acidly observes, "in the streets." Once, styles trickled down from a handful of wealthy and conservative women whose clothes were made to order by entrenched French designers. Being chic was the objective, but always in a dignified and ladylike way. Now youth is in command, and it is the college and young career girls who make the mode. What Actress Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the Ten Best-Dressed Women combined...
...King Zog, who was deposed in 1939. After a visit to Sacramento last spring, Leka wrote from Paris that he would be sending "a small token of appreciation," namely a 15-month-old, 700-lb. elephant. The beast's name: Gertie, which Nancy Reagan thought lacked a certain chic, and is why the Sacramento zoo came to acquire an elephant named...
...courage to other mothers because so many people are discouraged about their children," Mrs. Kennedy mused about her son's chronic tardiness and lack of discipline at boarding school. She told how "the President" heeded her motherly advice to wear a striped tie on TV because it looked chic, and to keep his hands out of his pockets. Throughout her recollections, she was at once a nostalgic mother and a gallant woman. As Reasoner summed up: "When you talk to Rose Kennedy now in the setting of this old house, which would put her in mind of the sadnesses...