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...classiest retail stores in the U.S. He compiled the list as a way of enforcing a November trademark-infringement ruling in which he prohibited the toniest U.S. stores from selling Elizabeth Taylor's new fragrance, called Passion (price: $165 per oz. of perfume). Sweet had ruled that the upper-crust marketplace already belonged to an older Passion ($270), which the French firm Annick Goutal has marketed in the U.S. since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCENTS: Oh, to Be Too Tony for Liz! | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Erpingham (John Claflin) is the name of the director of a chain of British holiday camps, an upper crust, uptight version of Club Med. He is the Great Oppressor/Dictator/Imperialist, demanding religiously fanatic devotion and obeisance from his workers and campers while envisioning a world-spanding empire of holiday camps. He declares off-handedly that his campers don't have rights, only privileges--even food is a privilege...

Author: By Michael D. Shin, | Title: The Erpingham Camp | 8/14/1987 | See Source »

...this fall, the professional shoppers lined up with a fine impartiality, tasting almost everything they encountered en route, whether it was the finest Scottish salmon and Italy's best Parmigiano-Reggiano or dismal Aussie Pie, which was baked and frozen Down Under, with its bland beef filling in a crust much like damp shirt cardboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Fancy Is as Fancy Does | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...known brand names in literature, although nowadays hardly anyone reads her short stories, her flop plays, her mostly slight and bitchy journalism or more than a handful of her poems, most of which depend on the confectionery trick of concealing a goo of sentimental self-pity beneath a brittle crust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brittle Nell THE LATE MRS. DOROTHY PARKER | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

...this bread were not truly special? Has its moist, chewy middle not induced them to brave city streets where people have been mugged for their sneakers and murdered for a leather jacket? Are the triple-braided loaves not caked with sesame seeds? Does the round loaf not have a crust you can cut your gums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Bread That Casts a Spell | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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