Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book, writing another and -in those ice-cream suits and wild shirts of his-making the usual rounds of those Beautifully Peopled parties in New York. And thereby hangs the tale of his takeover last week of the entire issue of New York magazine with an article entitled "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's." Pop sociology is what it is all about-the sudden enthusiasm among the fun people to have their own Worst Enemies, Black Panthers, Grape Strikers and such, in for cocktails. Confrontation now! The party at Lenny's, of course, was that fund-raising...
...Bathing suits did them proud on the beach, but anyone intent on snorkeling or scuba diving was bound to find her bikini at loose ends down in the deep. Trouble was that so few women were interested in underwater sports that designers gave little thought to aquatic chic. By now, though, female skindivers are everywhere, and fashion has caught up with their demands; at long last they are able to go down to the sea in style...
Integrated Activity. The most stunning of the new resorts is Avoriaz, which sits on a snow-covered shelf overlooking the Morzine Valley in Haute Savoie. Built in 1965, Avoriaz reeks of chic; it has become the St. Tropez of the mountains. The visitor leaves his car in the valley, boards the téléphérique and settles back to enjoy the eight-minute ride (perhaps with Frequent Visitor Brigitte Bardot) up the steep, jagged mountainside. If he does not own an apartment in a condominium, he will most likely stay at the HÔtel des Dromonts...
...matches at Harvard this week, and where there is tennis, there is, yes, Bud Collins. When I last saw Collins it was at the Longwood Pro championships in July, and he was calmly, totally in control. This week, he was in control again, but not merely as the suffocatingly chic Master of Revels. This time, goddamn, he was running the whole show...
...know, suddenly everyone got groovy. I mean, when suddenly, you could buy beads at Tie City, that's when the show started to change. It really became like very fashionable and chic to be long-haired. It changed -everyone just got hip- but it was such greasy hip." Someone mentioned hip New Jersey truck drivers, and he added. "It's wrong to think that way because everybody should be. Every body's got the right to be. But I really hate seeing it become a trend, a fad you know, like miniskirts. When these New Jersey truck drivers started giving...