Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what a lousy job I did," grins McCain, a sassy, prematurely white-haired Navy career man sitting on a soft couch in the glittering Middle American chic of the Marriott's split-level lobby. McCain spent 42 months in solitary confinement, partly because his father, Admiral John McCain, happened to be Navy Commander in Chief for the Pacific. "Until the day I went down, I lived under my father's shadow," McCain explains. "Incarceration relieved me of that burden-he couldn't affect my future there...
...said of Columnist Heywood Broun that he resembled an unmade bed. This summer that dubious sartorial distinction is being emulated by fashion-conscious men and women from Fifth Avenue to Rodeo Drive. The look could be called Sloppy Chic. Its adherents insist that the clothes they wear be made of natural fibers-cotton, linen, silk-and that they look natural: unstructured, unlined, unstarched, unpressed. Their aim is to look carefree not careless, modish not messy, though the distinction may at times be more in the eye of the wearer than the beholder. "This year," says a buyer at Chicago...
...sheik chic? Not according to the residents of Beverly Hills, who have been aghast at the $2.4 million mansion that Saudi Arabia's Sheik Mohammad al Fassi painted blue-green and refurbished in rococo kitsch. To appease the neighbors, Mohammad's father Sheik Shams Aldein al Fassi gave a housewarming for 1,000 or so and showed off the improvements: a bathroom decorated with pornographic posters, a basement discotheque, a circular master bed that revolves at the press of a button and stuffed life-size camels. "In my religion, you take care of your neighbors," said the Sheik...
...turned up at the second annual Sheep and Wool Festival of the New Hampshire Sheep Breeders Association can distinguish a ram from a ewe. Even so, plenty of them are parading around in costumes that instantly identify them as devotees of what is known in woolgathering circles as "sheep chic": sheepskin vests and coats, shepherds' jackets and lambskin caps...
...horse carved out of a mammoth tusk; it hardly seems possible that this graceful piece, fashioned more than 30,000 years ago, is one of the oldest objets d'art ever found. No less remarkable are the voluptuous "Venus" statuettes, some of them coiffed in Stone Age chic, that date back some 27,000 years. Even the wall paintings, some of them on a larger-than-life scale, show a mastery of form and perspective that was not seen again for almost 6,000 years...