Word: elfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST BLUSH, IT SEEMS AN ODD MARRIAGE: YVES Saint Laurent, the high priest of Parisian chic, selling his financially burdened empire to France's pharmaceuticals and beauty-products company Elf Sanofi, itself a division of the state-owned petrochemical giant Elf Aquitaine. Look again. Elf Sanofi already owns such perfume brands as Oscar de la Renta, Van Cleef & Arpels and a share in Nina Ricci. The addition of YSL will create the world's third largest beauty-products group -- behind France's L'Oreal and Estee Lauder...
...scent of recession permeating high fashion had left YSL with rising debt and shriveling profits. The new group, with estimated annual sales of $4.6 billion, will emerge from a complex $645 million share swap. The deal gives Elf Sanofi total control of YSL's lucrative perfume and cosmetics line, but will allow Saint Laurent and YSL chairman Pierre Berge to retain management control of their celebrated fashion activities until 2001 -- enough time to leave a lasting impression...
CAPTION:THE ELF AQUITAINE GROUP
...they gave an Olympics and everybody came? Answer, at Albertville and Barcelona: thrills aplenty. And spills. If the figure skaters' jitters deprived them of perfection, it hyped the competition, so fiercely did they fight just to keep on their feet. Star quality counts too. Hungary's Henrietta Onodi, an elf-enchantress, took silver in gymnastics but gold in viewers' eyes...
Dispensing anatomical advice with the charm of a Keebler elf, psychologist Ruth Westheimer delivered a rambling lecture to an audience of 100 at Austin Hall last night...