Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second week of spring and summer showings, Parisian haute couture managed to sashay back to the hip-flask era, blast off into far-outer space, and keep fashion pundits' necks swiveling as if they were covering an inter-aeon Davis Cup match...
...hip flask was passed by Captain Edward Molyneux, making his return to fashion at 71, after 15 years devoted to painting. His collection evoked memories of the days when Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence and the Duchess of Kent-all faithful Molyneux clients-were Everyman's symbols of feminine elegance...
Love a la Carte. As a veteran prostitute who has given up amore for omeletti, Simone Signoret lays down the house rules to her staff. "This is a restaurant, at least for the time being-don't waggle so much," she tells one hip-swiveling waitress. Borrowing its theme from a 1958 Italian law banning legalized brothels, Love purports to show what happens when four harlots open a restaurant in the country. Theirs is a modest establishment, designed to keep the girls off the street until they dare to resume plying their old trade upstairs...
Chuck Reischel is a big, fast, tough right guard, who is in Group II and wants to be a political scientist. While Jack Fadden taped his hip, Reischel explained Machiavelli to an awed audience of junior Tom Choquette. Reischel had been looked on with awe all fall for his football playing as well as his academic status. His fellow linemen called him "the iron horse" since almost everybody else on the line had missed some kind of work because of injuries...
...then acceded to his nation's most bitter defeat in June 1940, when as the 73-year-old commander of Allied troops in France, he found the Nazi blitzkrieg so overwhelming that he recommended capitulation before the entire country was overrun; of complications following a broken hip; in Paris. Over the years most Frenchmen have forgiven his lack of fighting spirit, putting it down to age and a lifetime spent thinking in terms of trench warfare. But not Charles de Gaulle, who denied him a funeral at Les Invalides, traditional shrine for French military heroes...