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...Broadway's Wait Until Dark: "It's about the only way my husband and I can entertain." So popular has brunch become that it is now being re-exported to Britain (where the word was coined at the turn of the century) as the latest U.S. fad...
...that that was the highest Northeast ever flew. Its equipment included the oldest DC-3s flying regular service in the U.S. Schedules through and out of New England were as patchy as a Cape Cod fog, baggage and reservations were often scrambled. Anguished anecdotes about Northeast service became a fad. There was, for instance, the plane that loaded up and then sat for so long on the apron that passengers joked to one another about not having a pilot. As it turned out, they didn't; he came along about half an hour late and finally flew them...
...past four centuries, is dying? Many designers and editors in the U.S. insist today that it does. They point out how many times in recent years U.S. designers have shown the way. St. Laurent's "pop art" dresses this year look much like U.S. teen-age fad dresses of last summer. The hit of Bohan's collection for Dior this July was the "Doctor Zhivago" long coat, coupled with a short-skirted suit; yet the U.S.'s Gernreich showed the same style in 1963, and half a dozen other American designers showed...
...stereotypes about Los Angeles are fast losing whatever basis they may have had. No longer does the city suffer from chronic San Francisco envy, even though it has taken up the San Francisco-originated topless-waitress fad. With more grandeur if less concentrated charm, Los Angeles is refreshingly free of San Francisco's narcissistic smugness. Los Angeles has no time to be smug. It is too busy: busy building its $19 million privately financed Music Center, a downtown complex consisting of the 3,250-seat Pavilion and two smaller, almost completed theaters; busy putting up galleries like...
...crosses had no meaning. They were merely the latest fad. Fashion, Chikin, fashion-and profit. GUM Buyer Klavdia Mikhailovna picked up the trinkets for 330 each, presumably from a Czech costume-jewelry firm, which has been flooding Eastern Europe with such baubles. Klavdia put them on sale for $3.33, turning a neat 900% profit for the Socialist mother land. In the Soviet Union, where selling Bibles can lead to banishment, Klavdia was just a little too avantgarde. By week's end Chikin could report in a follow-up story that the doublecross to dialectical materialism had been avenged. Klavdia...