Word: chicly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time Bentsen cut a wider swath in Washington. In the days before economist chic, he quickly established himself as the Senator with the numbers. His office was hung with spreadsheets and flow charts. In a world of financial illiterates, he became known as a man of probing analysis and computer-chip memory who actually knew how to wend intricate tax breaks for the oil and real estate industries through Congress...
...recent years, particularly in the South and West, Hispanic decorating styles have spread from ethnic enclave to city center to suburb. Design and architecture magazines and chic boutiques are full of the terra-cotta pots, vivid woven rugs and ceramic tiles of the Santa Fe style, and homebuilders around the country are busy slapping stucco onto plywood and chicken wire to satisfy a growing yen for adobe homes. At the same time, more public buildings are being constructed in a modern flourish on the Old World style of Spain, with arched porticoes, wide, shady courtyards and bubbling fountains. "I like...
...House & Garden in 2 1/2 days," bristles a former editor who was fired shortly after Wintour arrived. Wintour explains that rather than showing "empty rooms," she prefers to bring in the feeling of people. "Dramatic environments reflect strong personalities," she says, sitting behind the stark black desk in her chic but minimalist Madison Avenue office...
Raisa's fashion tastes have received mixed reviews. Parisian critics, for example, have described her as "elegant but not chic." In fact, she appears to avoid flashy clothes. Much of her wardrobe is prepared by a team of designers led by Tamara Mokeyeva of the "experimental" atelier at the Dom Modeli in Moscow. Soviet clothing factories depend on the shop's designs to keep track of what's hot and what's not. But the cuts and colors remain conservative. According to one report, Mokeyeva has only praise for her First Lady: "She has natural charm. This is not something...
...shows could get a quick laugh by disparaging some plonk from Australia as "a wine for laying down and leaving there." No longer. The wines from Down Under are moving steadily up in quality, and they are enjoying a new popularity in the U.S. Riding a trend for Aussie chic that has made household names of Qantas, Pat Cash and "Crocodile" Dundee, U.S. sales of Australian wines topped 1 million gallons last year, more than triple the volume of 1986. "People who have experimented with Australian wines have been very happy," says Jon Fredrikson, a San Francisco wine consultant. "They...