Word: chicly
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...ardent foodies. Sometimes their comings and goings provide rich material for gossip. Five days before the start of this year's harvest, Lake County's ambitious Kendall- Jackson Vineyard hired away John Hawley, the chief vintner at Sonoma's Clos du Bois. That was the sneaky equivalent of a chic bistro's signing up a rival's chef two hours before Saturday dinnertime. (Hawley's successor at Clos du Bois, as it happens, is another promising distaff vintner, Margaret Davenport...
...Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even a group portrait of the all-suburban family. And how pleased Edward is to be a guest of this brood -- especially since it includes teenage Kim (Winona Ryder), to < whom Edward will give his love as soon...
Four major suppliers of the prized delicacies, which sell for as much as $460 per lb. in chic Paris shops, have been indicted in Provence. Their "black diamonds" were allegedly nothing more than cheap gray and white mushrooms covered with a dark stain made from walnuts...
Ever since its publication in 1949, Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky has been praised for its portrayal of a modern married couple afflicted with ennui, malaise, anomie -- the chic social diseases that Americans of the postwar era picked up from French intellectuals. But the novel has another ghoulish attraction: it maps out the all-time nightmare itinerary for the innocent abroad...
Fashion is painful. Women suffer pinching, scratching, binding, twisting in the name of chic. Push-up bras give you the lush bosom of the '90s, but the underwire cuts into your rib cage. Panty hose are hot and, frankly, sweaty. High heels give your hips an alluring tilt, but after a 10-minute walk, your feet scream. Short skirts are young and kicky. But how young do you want to look when you can't sit comfortably...