Word: cosmopolitanization
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...just beneath that cosmopolitan veneer, ready to erupt, are tensions between the Cubans and their fellow Floridians. Dade County voters last year approved, 3 to 2, an ordinance that forbids the spending of its public funds to promote bilingualism. The bad blood has risen dramatically since the arrival of the Marielitos last year. Whites in particular resent picking up the tab of caring for the newcomers, but the animosity spills over on all Cubans. "I wonder who really upsets whites the most," says Monsignor Bryan Walsh, who ran a resettlement program for Cuban children in the 1960s, "the poor Cuban...
...knuckles into pate, but Rense, 47, has performed similar transmutations in the past. Cleon Knapp's Architectural Digest was a little-mown trade journal with a circulation of less than 50,000 when Rense, an advertising representative for California sportswear and cosmetics firms and a sometime freelancer for Cosmopolitan, applied for a job in 1970. When Knapp asked what she thought of his magazine, Rense replied: "Boring and poorly edited." She was hired on the spot. With a monthly circulation of 558,000, Digest in the past year carried more than 1,400 pages of high-tone ads (Ferrari...
...Lampoon will distribute a first printing of at least a million copies of the parody, its largest project in 105 years of humor writing. The last Lampoon parody, of Cosmopolitan magazine, appeared nationwide in 1973 and sold more than a million copies...
Scavullo in 1976 chose one of Kamali's bikinis for a Cosmopolitan cover, and since that time she has been known for her sensuous swimsuits. Like a mother hen, she keeps a tight watch on her swim line and handpicks the seamstresses who sew her provocative suits. Says Kamali: "Swimwear is about the most difficult thing to do. It's for an individual's body, and you're responsible for everything, including the cellulite...
Organization bent over laughing. Then she stood up and wiped the rouge from her face with my freshly cleaned towel, and I realized that she was Procrastination. Organization had been only a grumpy Procrastination in tailored clothes and cosmopolitan make...