Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western chic, this is the year of the coolie who came in from the cold. Starting last spring, when the first Chinese-inspired fashions swept Paris, European and American designers have been having a collective field day redecorating workers' uniforms and baggy pants, overblouses and quilted jackets. The style might be called Mao a la mode. Now, with the fall collections, American couturiers have gone from paddy to palace, digging deep into the treasure chest of Imperial China. Result: high-collared mandarin robes, silk jacquard jackets, sable-lined evening coats of old damask and golden-scrolled pajamas, all done...
...drop since a government collapse coincided with a slumping market 15 years ago. Gianni Agnelli, chairman of Italy's giant Fiat automotive empire, warned that the results would "push us farther away from the Western world." Speculators sold the lira short. Moviemakers, many of whom are radical chic Communist voters, fretted that Western cinemoney would...
...mean and exact; his sense of ideas almost nonexistent. He had (and still has) one obsessive theme: the unease of the arrived white rich, the devices by which they assuage guilt, and the hustles wrought on them from below. That was the motif of his last book, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970). It also supplies the comedy of manners for his new one, The Painted Word, which appeared in Harper's April issue and has now been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book was meant to be a scathing indictment...
Wolfe has an astute eye for what he knows about: namely, the pretensions of art consumers and the stratagems by which the chic of New York use new art as a tool for social climbing. There he is on home ground, being in every sense part of his frothy and fashion-ruled subject. He was there. But he was not in any of the places where art was made or serious thought about it discussed. The world of production, as against consumption, is alien to Wolfe. Hence the scissors-and-paste flavor of The Painted Word. It is not just...
Bitter Charges. Puttnam urged Ophuls to be more aggressive in his approach, or, as he put it, "more fascist." Ever since, there have been bitter charges and recriminations. Ophuls believes that the producers wanted a bit of glib radical chic, like the current Hearts and Minds. The backers charge that Ophuls wanted the film to be six hours long (his contract dictated a maximum length of 4½ hours) and became intractable when this possibility was denied."Bunk," says the director, who proposed an "ideal" length of six hours but cut the film down to 4 hours 38 minutes...