Word: gucci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beaten tourist track. At La Badia, a converted 12th century monastery 75 minutes north of Rome, double rooms cost $33. Lunch at Peppone, a very good medium-priced trattoria off the Via Veneto, costs $16, including appetizer, dessert and drinks. Status shoppers can pick up a pair of black Gucci loafers at $92 for men, $72 for women, or about 40% to 50% less than on Fifth Avenue...
...karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch in a Baccarat crystal case embossed with the customer's name. Bijan's own signature is engraved in gold on the shank of the gun. It is the perfect accompaniment to his line of bullet-proof clothing. "Gucci," he says with evident pride, "never did gold pistols." Advertisements, which have run in such trendsheets as Interview and Town and Country, include one with a black-robed woman pointing the revolver at the reader...
...communist group marched in a small circle, chanting slogans in support of El Salvador leftist rebels. The conservatives retaliated with shouts of "Down with Gucci communists" and "Long live the Marines...
Chants of Down with Gucci Liberals and "Peace Through Strength" interrupted the nine successive speakers at last night's rally which included representatives of the former Communist Hanoi Government and the Abdala Cuban Movement an anti Castro organization A Soviet emigre warned of the miliaturization of Soviet society, following other speakers' warnings that " it's not too late to get rid of the Soviet regime...
...makes the spectacle ridiculous now is that, except in rare cases, people who have latched onto some status cannot be sure of how to flash the news to the world, and people who are watching cannot be sure who is dramatizing what sort of status with what symbol. Order Gucci loafers and you only risk winding up shod the same way as the boy who delivers them. A Cadillac today signifies nothing about the owner except that he might well pull in at the next Burger King. Incontrovertibly, any game has been seriously maimed when you can no longer tell...