Word: fiendishness
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...American tailoring popular internationally. At Chanel, the talented, aggressive Lagerfeld seems to be mounting a direct challenge to Saint Laurent's supremacy in both the atelier and the boutique. As he did in the '70s when his couture values were threatened, Saint Laurent will probably respond with fiendish flare. If he does not, the reason may be that he is content to reaffirm those values quietly through his designs. One emerges from this retrospective sensing that this is a defiant stronghold of luxury and glamour. As Saint Laurent writes in an essay for the museum's catalogue...
...sees Whitaker in the bushes. He insists that he is not a royal-watcher but a "social policeman." About the time that Whitaker diagnosed anorexia, however, Dempster indulged himself with a lofty and fairly encyclopedic denunciation of Diana's faults. It was he who said that she was spoiled, fiendish and a monster, that she was spending too much money on clothes shaming the nation's upper classes by having temper tantrums that drove staff to resign, and making Charles "desperately unhappy...
...portrait of a leader of half the world lounging in his modern Hungarian easy chair, dipping into Valley of the Dolls, sipping Scotch, chuckling over KGB jokes, pondering China in his amateur way and dreaming of the day when he and the gypsies can get down to some serious fiendish tennis in Afghanistan...
...Section 22, behind home plate. In this Florida jewel box (capacity: 3,800), the Old Boys have developed private territories, holding court in fixed locations where their friends can seek them out, or their enemies-the genial shufflers with a copy of Baseball Digest under one arm and a fiendish trivia question up their sleeve. Eddie Fegan, waggling his cane with the stylishness of Jimmy Cagney, presides over the front row behind third base. Bob Caterino, wearing his jacket with the legend SOMERVILLE BOXING CLUB across the chest, perches on a green utility box way behind first base-the fighter...
...Administration settles in and its top people become more familiar, labels are also being stuck to them. Cartoonist Herblock has at last found in Secretary of State Haig a fiendish target for caricaturing that he hasn't enjoyed since the days of Nixon's sinister 5 o'clock shadow. Herblock's Haig is an overepauleted, Napoleonic Dr. Strangelove. Not all the press's labels have been so unfriendly, at least at the outset. Reagan's budget-cutting David Stockman is often referred to as "the brilliant 34-year-old conservative," but as Russell Baker...