Word: gucci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone on board felt the trip was a complete loss. Many passengers liked the new shops hawking the goods of Gucci, Dior and Dunhill. Others praised the polite crew, understaffed by a last-minute union squabble. But it was not like the old days when Cunard boasted that "getting there is half the fun." Last week jetting there might have been half the hassle...
...good at marketing it." Not only a deep epitaph but a modest understatement: Van Gogh sold, as everyone knows, one painting in his life, and it was not Sunflowers. If only he had had what we have today -- a million millionaires clamoring for art, corporate art advisers breeding like Gucci-shod mice in every cranny from Tokyo to Stuttgart, the whole grotesque edifice of sanctimony, hype, greed and social mummery that has been raised above bones like his. How much closer he might have come, poor strange man, to an understanding of his own value...
...Gucci Packs...
...whose name has been synonymous with status and high fashion, it was a humiliating and humbling moment. Aldo Gucci, 81, former head of the Italian clothing and leather-goods company that bears his name, had pleaded guilty in January to evading $7.4 million in U.S. taxes, and last week he stood in a Manhattan federal court awaiting his sentence. "I feel very sorry, deeply sorry for what happened," said Gucci, in a halting, emotional voice...
Judge Vincent Broderick said he would be lenient because of Gucci's age and the painful publicity the defendant had already suffered. The sentence: a year in prison, $30,000 in fines and five years' probation. Gucci will begin serving his term in October at a still undisclosed prison and will be eligible for parole after four months...