Word: fab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fab? Chaos Ever since the Beatles gave up personal appearances, they have been searching for new ways to occupy their time away from the recording studios. The guru bit was a kick, and so was making home movies. Say, they thought, why not combine the two and make a sort of visionary flick for TV? Fab! Paul directed, Ringo mugged, John did imitations, George danced a bit and, when the show hit the BBC last week, the audience gagged. Titled Magical Mystery Tour after their latest album, the one-hour show was never magical but always mysterious. Try as they...
...better skipper, the better crew-and the better boat. Intrepid knifed cleanly through the 3-ft. to 10-ft. swells while Pattie was hobbyhorsing badly. Intrepid's Dacron and nylon sails also were clearly superior to Pattie's, which were cut from an Australian fab ric called Kadron. The Aussies, who had spent upwards of $750,000 to mount their challenge, were frankly glum. "We just want to get this over with and go home," said Aussie Crewman Billy Burns...
...adult who Mark Lindsay is and he will guess, maybe the son of New York's mayor? He is not. He is the positively super-fab lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Anyone who does not know that is obviously lame, a noid-or perhaps just over 25 and into the twilight of life. To stop being such a square or a jerk paranoid type, all that is necessary is to start digging a new breed of magazine that is aimed at the hip teenager...
...Beatles on her birthday list as Members of the Order of the British Empire, an honor the shaggies won for all the cash that their noise had contributed to the empire's balance of payments. This time, for rather the same reason, Her Majesty named fab Fashion Designer Mary Quant, 32, doyenne of the Chelsea group's knee-baring, hippy styles, as an officer of the O.B.E. Her fad is siphoning so much loot into Albion that the Queen ranked Mary one full notch up on the Beatles...
...fashions, observed Marya, who dresses sedately enough herself: "If it's sometimes hard to tell boys and girls apart in boots and sweaters and pants and hair -well, to some of us they spell a wonderful freedom and comfort and an honest sense of the body." Fab...