Word: fur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen years after her first starring role in a fur bikini in One Million Years B.C., Raquel Welch, 42, is writing a book. And in the tradition of Jane Fonda and Miss Piggy, it will be an exercise-beauty-tip plan for which she has already received a $275,000 advance from New American Library. Welch, who has been warming up for her task by practicing on a new $10,000 word processor, says that unlike other get-fit-quick books, hers will emphasize that "the mind and the body are connected." She hasn't actually started writing...
...Ninety; The Complete Graphics (E.P. Dutton; $75). On the cover is Beauty and the Beast, a serigraph of the quintessential Erté woman, who still rules his world. Coiffed in a peacock's tail, she has wrapped her naked body in the ultimate art deco fur coat, a live black panther...
Volvo intends to control its sales growth in the U.S. by limiting the number of cars it exports. Says Gyllenhammar: "If we try to react too quickly to styles and trends, we lose our honesty. We have stayed away from putting green fur covers on the seats because someone says he might like green fur seats." If volume continues to increase, however, one option is to open the U.S. assembly plant that Volvo built in Chesapeake, Va., but decided in 1974 not to operate. Whether an American-made Volvo would diminish the Swedish mystique, only those loyal and affluent buyers...
...coat during a stop in Alaska. When Ford stepped off Air Force One in the frozen remoteness of Vladivostok, a waiting Brezhnev immediately spied the coat. He pulled it off the President, tried it on and walked away with it at the end of the talks after jamming a fur hat down over Ford's ears. It was, by Brezhnev's standards, a fair trade...
When dining out, a fur coat is a fantasy necessity. Fendi's one-of-a-kind Croiset Norka fox ($75,000, from Neiman-Marcus) would do nicely, but a "full-length sweep of splendor" made of Russian snow lynx bellies ($125,000, from Sakowitz) is more tasteful if less carefree. To stay svelte, anyone would love Heartmate, an electronically controlled aerobic exercise bicycle ($4,000, from Abercrombie & Fitch). The avid pedaler can listen to music, AMFM, or view television on the machine's console, while monitoring digital read-outs of mileage, heart rate, calorie expenditure and countdown timing...