Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radical Chic. While Schmidt has restored a bit of Prussian efficiency to German politics, Giscard, 48, has brought radical chic to France's government. The transformation is all the more surprising because as Pompidou...
...Football chic. Liking a team but not showing it. That's what it's all about around here...
...team is winning, another line of action is demanded. Football is the end of the world. Jumping up and down drunkenly or otherwise is allowed at this time. It is important to remember that next week, however, football chic will again be important. No absolute decisions about the team can be made until late in the season...
...probing interviewer. Recently Lee taped for CBS-owned stations Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith, Gloria Steinem, Halston, Robert Coles, Peter Benchley and Rudolf Nureyev. If successful, they could earn Lee her own talk show. For 2½ minutes on the evening news last week Lee, dressed with unrelenting chic and speaking in a throaty mid-Atlantic drawl, questioned Rudi about his life and work. The concept, explained a CBS spokesman, was to cover a single thought each time. The most provoking idea occurred to Lee in the fourth session. "Do you think you'll ever get married?" she asked...
Romantic appeal aside, the big reason for the sudden chic of sea burial is economics. Says Charles Denning, founder of the Neptune Society: "For the past hundred years undertakers have made a rich living by selling tin boxes that rust in the ground, pink gowns and booties, and scenic plots overlooking freeways." These standard "hole-in-the-ground" funerals, he notes, cost $1,200 to $1,900. Burial at sea runs a mere $250 a throw...