Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might have been rated a Big Man on Campus. Enrolled in 1987 in the continuing- education program, he quickly became a campus celebrity. His moniker helped. The short, wavy-haired chap with the cosmopolitan air just happened to be Maurice de Rothschild, wayfaring scion of the rich and illustrious French banker, Baron Guy de Rothschild...
...Honda CRX, he confided, only because he did not want to risk denting his Maserati. He helped out in a research lab for a measly $100 a week, he said, only because his family had cut him off when he failed to go to Harvard. He would not speak French, he said, only because Americans had such atrocious accents. He was fond of showing pictures of family mansions clipped out of magazines. When going away for a few days he would confide he was off for some sailing with the Kennedys. He spent $200 a month at the Campus Florist...
Eventually, a few acquaintances began to wonder about Maurice. It appeared odd, to say the least, that he could speak only halting French. And what about those vivid blue contact lenses? And where did he get that Southern accent? If he was in his mid-30s as he looked, what was he doing in school? Was this guy for real...
...eight years, where did she open? The answer every time: Atlantic City. So Painton set out to discover the lure. "The only thing I knew about Atlantic City was that Louis Malle had made a movie about it," she says. Painton, an American, grew up in Paris and attended French schools until college and, like the French director, found the famous U.S. resort something exotic. "I approached this American shrine -- and Atlantic City is one -- with the intense curiosity of a foreigner," she says...
From supermodel Suzy Parker in the 1950s to Christie Brinkley in the early 1980s, fair-skinned models used to dominate advertising. Most ad experts trace the change to Europe, where couturiers, notably Givenchy, began employing black women as runway models. The French fashion magazine Elle helped pioneer the polyethnic look in its editorial pages, then exported the philosophy to America when it launched a U.S. edition four years ago. (Catherine Alain- Bernard, fashion and beauty editor of the French Elle, says her magazine still gets a few letters from people complaining about black models and "giving jobs to immigrants...