Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candlelight dinner. It has drifted in from the gold mines and cattle ranges of the Old West, from the wharves, barracks and boiler rooms of today, carrying a look as cleanly functional as sled or scythe. It is fluid, soft, supple, slithery, sexy and unstuffy. Says Consuelo Crespi, editor of Italian Vogue...
That, of course, is an overstatement, as is the insistence by European designers that they are not influenced by their American counterparts. Incontrovertibly, the dynamics of American life and the clothes that reflect it have profoundly affected the way people dress around the world. Says Carrie Donovan, senior fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. "You really saw it last fall in the Paris ready-to-wear collections. They took wonderful stuff from the Army-Navy store, Bermuda shorts, parkas-it was the American way of dressing done with their particular style...
...only in the past decade or so that U.S. designers have become celebrities in their own right. With a few exceptions, like the late Norman Norell and the late Claire McCardell, most designers used to work semianonymously for manufacturers. Today, says June Weir, fashion editor of Women's Wear Daily, "customers are much more designer-conscious. So when a customer walks into a store, she's heard of Bill Blass, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein and is willing to pay a little extra to be able to say she is wearing designer clothes...
Newspapers have letters-to-the-editor columns and op-ed pages to accommodate outside voices; broadcast equivalents are harder to find. The FCC encourages local stations to let viewers and listeners answer station editorials, but not news and documentary programs. In a Mobil ad that appeared opposite newspaper editorial pages the same day as the "hatchet job" blast, the company urged consideration of a "voluntary mechanism" for reply that would be "developed by the press [and] which would promote free and robust debate...
...Times Editor William Rees-Mogg defended his editorial as a needed blow against what he sees as an "increasing trend in Fleet Street to competitively intrude into people's private lives." Many Britons seemed to agree. The four offending papers were deluged with letters expressing sympathy for George-Brown. The Daily Mail devoted its entire letters page to complaints on the matter-but noted that it did so because "newspapers, like politicians, operate in the public arena...