Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class. By the time he was 21 he had established himself as his country's foremost driver; so off he went to Europe to try his hand and foot at big-time racing. For the next five years, he learned his craft as a member of the Cooper factory team, working his way up to Grand Prix competition. But he always wanted to build as well as drive...
Take-Off Pants. The costume look-or the "rich hippie" look, as it is sometimes known-is not just the prerogative of the young. Socialite-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, 44, is one devotee. Greeting guests at her recent one-woman show in Washington, D.C., she wore silver lamé harem pants, matching vest, rhinestone earrings,'bracelets, a brooch and six gold rings. "My dressing is a natural extension of my art," says Gloria, who specializes in collages...
Gernreich observes: "It is the designers of accessories who are now ascendant." One case in point is Adolfo, 35. Long exclusively a high-fashion milliner, he has lately added a line of interchangeable boutique clothes, which he sells to the likes of Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Jacqueline Kennedy and Mrs. William Paley. They take his "bits and pieces"-harem pants, long midi coats, shirts, vests and skirts-and combine them into what Adolfo calls "the anti-Establishment way of dressing for the Establishment...
...captain who has never hesitated to sound off when he is displeased. Early in the space program, he openly criticized John Glenn's NASA-sponsored public relations tours and argued that they had effectively removed Glenn from the program. When it was rumored that NASA might deny Gordon Cooper a Mercury orbital flight, Wally rescued Cooper by threatening to take the issue to the press...
Sorel, now 39, is a Cooper Union alumnus who got out of school searching more for money than for meaning. This was so, he recalls, because he had been raised on "the cotton candy of the Eisenhower years." His attitude toward art was "What's in it for me, Jack?" The result was a stream of corporate and airline advertisements that continued even after Sorel became a freelancing satirist...