Word: dernier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dernier Cri. Hollywood's hardest-working sex symbol showed up at Lanvin's salon, plopped herself down next to Nicole Alphand, wife of the French ambassador to Washington, and dazzled photographers, if not the fashion editors, with a hot-pink Balmain dress whose V-neck plunged to a demure bow set between her floating ribs. Carroll also displayed six inches of thigh, a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses, and aplomb...
Carroll had latched onto the dernier cri: from Paris to Rome, the word was feathers. And enough of them were being used to have the Audubon Society declare a state of emergency. Dior's Marc Bohan must have robbed every hen house and bird cage on the Continent. He whipped up topcoats of grouse, full-length evening coats of grackle, blouses of speckled hen feathers and wove materials half in tweed and half in pin feathers...
...critics were downright disgusted when Gian Carlo Menotti's new opera buffa was first performed in Paris last October. Le Dernier Sauvage had a libretto the French found far from funny, and its music they found distressingly short on substance. "A misery," said Le Figaro. But the Paris production was starved and skimpy, and Menotti's countless champions comforted themselves in the faith that The Last Savage would find a happier habitat in New York. Last week the Savage arrived at the Met in a production so beautiful that Menotti cheerfully conceded he would have no excuse...