Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elegant London clubs, members complain that the best French clarets are being shipped overseas. In Paris salons, regular customers find that their favorite couturiers are giving strange foreign customers first peek at the latest styles. At the art and antique auctions all over Europe, as many as half of the choicest items are being bought by people who never showed their faces a few years ago. As the American tourist surge is beginning to level off, Europeans are bringing out their stale stories about rich Texans for a new breed of foreigners-the Japanese...
...often proclaimed, Jacqueline Onassis values her privacy. But she did let Vogue take a photographic peek at Caroline's and John Kennedy Jr.'s "children-and-study room," the remodeled library of her Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment. On the study table were some of Jackie's treasures: some black coral she found while diving near Yucatan, a mushroom on a twig from Angkor Wat, two bronze Egyptian cats and, perhaps revealingly, a string of blue Greek worry beads...
Judging by the size of the crowds they attracted, the two biggest stars to emerge from last week's shows were Chloe Designer Karl Lagerfeld and Japanese Designer Kenzo Takada. People literally climbed into the windows of the Laurent restaurant on the Champs-Elysees to peek at Lagerfeld's collection, which emphasizes the elegant and the demure. His soft shirts with high, pointed collars peek out from under dresses and loose turtleneck sweaters. Tweedy vests and jackets were another variation. Lagerfeld also introduced an even more elaborate version of the layered look, with shirts worn one atop...
...agree with Pompidou's prediction that France faces "chaos" if the Gaullists lose. Raymond Aron, however, has a trenchant comment: "If Pompidou keeps telling the French, 'It's us or chaos,' he is likely to provoke the reply, 'Let's take a peek at what chaos looks like...
Every age has enjoyed a peek in the rear-view mirror...