Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gamekeepers are scarce nowadays, especially around London's chic St. James's Place, but otherwise the plot revealed in court last week was a familiar one to readers of D.H. Lawrence. On trial in the Old Bailey was a handsome Irishman named Maurice O'Regan, 33, charged with forging three checks to a total of $34,400. Maurice had been butler, chauffeur, valet, handyman and cook to Sir Francis Henry Grenville Peek, 56, fourth baronet of Rousdon. But with raven-haired, Jamaica-born Lady Caroline Peek, 37, the testimony revealed, Maurice's services had gone considerably...
...George McGovern is, but the real George McGovern remains a somewhat elusive and contradictory figure. At 49, he is warrior turned dove, preacher turned politician, a gentle, sometimes boring man whose even exterior masks an obsession to be President, a prairie populist who has become the darling of chic city liberals. McGovern has a way of uttering ideas thought radical by many in so folksy a manner that even some conservatives come away intrigued...
...Green Turtle, on Cambridge Street two blocks past Inman Square, is a greasy spoon. At night it turns into a hippie-chic restaurant complete with suburbanites in double-knit flares. But the spoons are still greasy, the tablecloth soiled, and the ashtrays overflowing...
...Brattle Square) imports pretty clothes and shoes from all over Europe--for a price. And upstairs from Ann Taylor's is the famous--and infamous--Design Research, or DR as it is called. Specializing in Scandanavian material and clothing as well as imported household goods, DR attracts a chic clientele...
Rose finally resolves the problem by taking her husband back. Somehow things change at once. She becomes more querulous and resentful; her beloved tacky neighborhood suddenly gets chic. But her motives are still homely and consistent. She relinquishes "the spiritual calm it had been a crime to ose" because she finally cannot deprive the children of their father-or him of them...