Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the magazine is free of cant, though the standard obeisance is paid to Marx and Lenin. And along with a provocative article on the development of human talent is a silly suggestion that Moscow may replace Paris as the fashion capital of the world. Nevertheless, Editor in Chief Oleg Feofanov promises that Sputnik will not turn into another propaganda organ like Soviet Life, the other magazine directed...
...cards are the first to be issued by a European bank, they are hardly the thing for the Europe-on-$5-a-day set. They will be honored at only about 120 spots in Paris and resorts in the south of France, including airline offices, the best hotels, restaurants, fashion houses and-for those who like to buy their Rolls-Royces or Mercedes on impulse-prestige auto dealers. What's more, only the elite with Rothschild bank accounts will be eligible for the cards, and those accounts are rather hard to get. To be accepted, Rothschild clients must...
...Weiss has completely sold out his stock of Viennese fortunetelling Tarot cards. Across the nation, the sale of Ouija boards has tripled in the past year, even the Harvard University Co-op sells out whenever it stocks them. Zodiac sign guessing has become part of the social chitchat, and fashion magazines, such as Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country, have yielded to the fad, started regular monthly horoscope columns...
...people. To entice visitors into what most New Yorkers considered wastelands of crime-ridden greenery, Hoving turned showman, scheduled a round of events, each "a little bit swinging." He brought in a computer to mate girls and boys in Bryant Park, proffered 50 beer at band concerts, sponsored miniskirted fashion shows, got 75,000 people to sit on the grass and listen to the New York Philharmonic at night, and flooded Central Park on Sundays with bicyclists by banning cars. His "happenings" in the park inveigled hundreds to paint murals on canvas, fly kites for prizes and watch for meteor...
Schramm defeated sophomore Bob Panoff, 5-0, in desultory fashion, but the M.I.T. moose has been known to go get a pin if his team really needs...