Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confection of a life spun out of Vogue covers, yacht cruises, love affairs with the likes of David de Rothschild and, at the moment, Auto Heir Ricky von Opel. Early in Marisa's career, Vogue Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland announced: "Many faces are alluring, but hers is chic. She can wear a hat like nobody else." She could also take it off: she posed nude for both Vogue and Playboy. "Some of the greatest works of art are of nudes," Marisa explains...
Cementing his image as the most chic of Baptist deacons from southern Georgia, Carter--with a certain amount of pride--told a small entourage of newmen following him to the dressing room about his seven-year-old daughter Amy, who attends a school back in Plains where she learns her daily lessons in a classroom with more black than white students from a black teacher. He greeted lead guitarist Betts with an earthy, "Goddam, how are you, man." Then Carter admired the red-and-white-knit-baseball-jersey-type shirt that TV hipster Geraldo Rivera was sporting--it read...
...part, the I.R.A. has clearly not been forced out of business by losing its cache at the Albion Towers. Three days after the raid, a bomb was hurled through the window of London's chic Walton's restaurant, two blocks from Harrods department store in the Knightsbridge district, killing two diners and injuring 20 others. It was the 16th such terrorist attack since August 27, and it brought the toll in the current bombing campaign to eight dead and 187 injured...
...sheep. He took lots of photographs and persuaded the Wilhelmina Model Agency in New York to sign her up. Iman, 20, who speaks fluent English, learned in the missionary schools she attended until age 15, arrived in Manhattan last week looking well-coiffed, made-up and clothed in jungle chic. "She's very distinguished, with a beautiful head and lovely long throat," observed Diana Vreeland, former editor of Vogue. Wilhelmina projected Iman's first-year salary at $80,000, prompting Beard to boast: "I feel like it's My Fair Lady." Iman's own goal...
...exciting contemporary woman filmmaker. Yet Swept Away has been thoroughly damned as sexist by feminist critics, while apolitical middle class hordes line up around the block on New York's East Side to see the film hailed by Vincent Canby as the greatest romantic comedy of the seventies, a chic version of The Way We Were...