Word: haute
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been on view in Paris for the past 14 years without attracting a commotion. Gigli is looking for an imprimatur, separating himself from the excellent elegances of Milan in favor of the more experimental company in Paris. The intrepid Japanese designers show their stuff in Paris; so do the haut trendies like Jean-Paul Gaultier and Claude Montana. The company is faster there than in Milan, where Giorgio Armani, Italy's premier talent, casts a very long shadow indeed. "Presumptuous," is the way Armani characterizes Gigli's move, adding, "He may want to be international, but his move is premature...
...That is in contrast to the basic notion of Black and Blue, which seems to be that more is more. Yet in the understated moments when the stage is all but bare save for a performer at home with his craft, the show attains magic that could satisfy the haut monde and Harlem alike...
Demme is tops at luring these confidences, these comic grace notes, out of his performers. And Pfeiffer knows how to dish them out with the generosity of an haut-monde hostess casting intimate glances at strangers. Both artists have made funky music before -- easy on the ears, with reverberations that jangle provocatively in a moviegoer's memory. But the violent mood swings Demme programmed into films like Melvin and Howard and Something Wild often kept viewers at a bemused remove. And once or twice Pfeiffer has been stuck in films she could ornament but not inform. This time, though, these...
...chic disco -- in this week's beyond-chic movie thriller -- a wealthy young woman named Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) may be witness to a murder. And be tabbed and stalked by the killer. And be protected by Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger), a Queens policeman who knows no more of haut-monde Manhattan then he may have seen on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous...
Gathering in the university's Fogg Museum, 160 past and present fellows toasted a tradition of pure scholarship with bottles of Chateau Haut-Brion '65, saved especially for the occasion. The society that they were commemorating is the creation of longtime (1909-33) Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, who endowed the society with $2 million of his own money ("It took nearly all I had") in the belief that the independent work of great scholars was the soul of a great university. He patterned the society after fellowships offered in England and France. Said Lowell: "Productive scholarship...