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...apex of a cycle that includes the notoriety. But this is the last thing I will ever write about Don Juan. Now I am going to be a sorcerer for sure. Only my death could stop that." It is a ro mantic role, this anthropological ges ture across a pit of entities which, in a different age, would have been called demons. Will Castaneda become the Dr. Faustus of Malibu Beach, attended by Mephistopheles in a sombrero? Stay tuned in for the next episode. In the meantime, his books have made it hard for readers ever to use the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...starkly modern design and easy atmosphere of the village suggest a kind of Op art campus where the athletes take community sunbaths, refresh themselves with drinks from a free milk bar, and are attended by hostesses in puffy powder-blue dirndls with white aprons and boots fashioned by Courréges. U.S. Track Coach Bill McClure, for one, thinks that there may be too much of a good thing. "The only trouble with the food here," he says "is that there is too much of it and that it is too good." But Chris Taylor, a U.S. wrestler who weighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Playground (or Fun | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...obscure his own work. He is the father of asymmetrical design, and his progeny are legion. Bastard Mondrians, with their printed grids of black lines and their rectangles of primary blue, red and yellow, turned up on every flat surface that industry made-from tea towels to Courrèges dresses, from cigarette packs to apartment façades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pursuit of the Square | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...White Suit: Courrèges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Voyeur's Guide to WWD | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

Courrèges concentrated on pointed hoods and capes in crinkly vinyl for day, satin-lined velvet for night, cutout minitunics over pants and slinky skirts, and a gaggle of see-through blouses. Givenchy shaped his long dresses with meticulous pin-tucked pleats, and emphatically ratified the romantic look with a black velvet pantsuit rounded at the hips and ruffled in black taffeta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Punch, Oui; Power, Non | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

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