Word: cocos
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Seychelles were the lost site of the Garden of Eden. His reasoning: they are the only source of the fabled coco de mer, whose giant 40-lb. fruit, long valued as a love potion, must have been what Eve really fed to Adam...
...cities, the ancestral home of many of the Continent's most dashing and beautiful women. "My clients prefer the styles of Chanel and Givenchy," coos the grey-haired grande dame of haute couture. But the city is not Paris, the river not the Seine, and madame is not Coco. She is Klara Rothschild of Budapest, oracle of fashion throughout Communist Europe, recipient of the Order of Labor in the People's Republic of Hungary, and at a state-paid salary of $20,000 a year, one of János Kadar's most generously valued national assets...
...Madame Coco La Fontaine, proprietress of an overstuffed boîte de nuit, Ethel Merman sports pink, green and violet wigs, and shouts insults at anyone who stops by to untangle the plot. Merman's bad temper is understandable, since she has to oversee a series of stale farcical escapades, the last of which has Garner going to the guillotine accused of Van Dyke's murder...
...formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in severe white dresses cut three inches above the knee and white, mid-calf boots open at the toe. The highflying hem was born. The French Vogue and Elle devoted so much space to Courrèges that Coco Chanel took offense, threatened leading French fabric houses that if they bought ads in the magazines, she would "never buy another centimeter of cloth." Stormed she: "They showed Courrèges and spoke about architecture-architecture? They go on and on about art and the year 2000. Stop! Who wears...
Chanel even outdid Chanel. Stealing the spotlight from her celebrated suits were gay, graceful dresses, many sidewrapped, mostly ruffled, pleated or tiered. Top Coco: an elegant-innocent white organdy evening dress with enough ruffles to fill Swan Lake...