Word: chicness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keep soap operas in the family. Of all the flops of last fall, perhaps the most unexpected was ABC's Paper Dolls. Set in the chic world of New York modeling, the series seemed expertly designed to satisfy the audience's yen for opulent-looking trash. But viewers responded with a gigantic yawn. The show's failure must have caused some nervous gulps at rival NBC, which was busily preparing a glossy soap set in the chic world of New York retailing. Oops...
...Manhattan fashion-design schools. She had--and still has--three hairdressers buzzing in and out. (Nancy Reagan is a "warm honey-blond with highlights," says Monsieur Marc, her New York stylist, who provides some of the highlights.) In all, Washington was overtaken by an extravagant new Tory chic...
...sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra pints if you can hack...
...benefited more than the French from the new thirst for chic sparklers. Genuine champagne comes only from grapes grown on 70,000 acres of chalky soil near Reims, France. It was there that Dom Pérignon, a 17th century Benedictine monk, perfected the slow, expensive méthode champenoise that creates the carbon-dioxide fizz by fermenting wine a second time inside the bottle. Until a few years ago, U.S. consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength...
California's Williams-Sonoma, the chic pot and pan company, last June moved its national distribution center to Memphis, Federal's headquarters, in part to provide faster access to the air service. Customers quickly become spoiled, notes Patrick Connolly, mailorder vice president. Says he: "Once you've gotten a package right away, you don't want to wait the next time...