Word: classically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Until now. In America he is a part of the curriculum on almost every campus; even in France, where he was almost pathologically rejected by Sartre's followers, he is being rehabilitated. Says Historian Christian Jambet, 29, whose analysis of revolution, L'Ange, has become a modern classic...
...women, the Annie Hallmark is tailored blazers, skirts and wrinkly fabrics, as exemplified in Calvin Klein's spring/summer collection. The paradox is that classic clothes end up looking like thrift shop purchases within a few steamy hours. One of the hottest-or coolest -fabrics around is Indian gauze, dyed with eggplant, saffron, cucumber and other natural substances, maybe even curry powder. Indian fabrics were among the highlights of a huge sales promotion of Indian merchandise mounted by Manhattan's Bloomingdale's last April. The material is so popular in New England that the Rhode Island-based...
This week fortune is ready to smile on Beatty yet another time. Heaven Can Wait, his new film, opens at 625 theaters nationwide and is almost sure to be the most popular entertainment of the summer. A remake of a classic Hollywood comedy called Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Heaven Can Wait is a light, screwball fantasy about a Los Angeles Rams quarterback (Beatty) who dies and comes back to life as an eccentric millionaire. The movie has everything going for it: big laughs, populist politics, billowy sequences set in heaven, a murder plot, a climactic Super Bowl game...
...least. Bonnie and Clyde became a classic of '60s pop culture and the year's highest grossing film. Beatty became an international culture hero. Visiting France after the movie opened there, he found that "people everywhere were dressed like Bonnie and Clyde; it was the pervasive theme." And Beatty was celebrated as its prophet. At haul monde parties in Paris, he recalls, "you would be seated at a table with Maurice Chevalier on one side, Arthur Rubinstein on the other and Mr. and Mrs. Pompidou across the candlesticks. There were old men with beautiful young girls?not one but clusters...
...contact. The spokesman of China was Mao Tse-tung; the spokesman of America was Major General Patrick Hurley. Mao was a genius, Hurley was an ignoramus, and Hurley's arrival in Yenan during that first week in November 1944, to begin American negotiations with Chinese Communists, is a classic instance of the derailment of history by accident...