Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea is elegance-a calculatedly casual, languid elegance suggesting an evanescent Fitzgerald memory of the summer of '22. "To want to walk out on the lawn wearing a white silk shirt and white flannels presents a very rich, dreamlike atmosphere," says New York Designer Ralph Lauren, whose Polo label has looked longingly back at the '20s for some time. There are dissenters inevitably. Designers Galanos and Halston view Gatsby by any name as a banana-oil slick. It is "not an influence on truly fashionable people," says Halston, whose clients include Jackie Onassis and Mrs. William Paley. "Women...
...magazines are calling it le style tennis or the Deauville look. But it might just as easily be described as the Newport-to-Palm Beach mood, or the John Held Jr. look (after the cartoonist who lampooned the '20s) or the Devereux Milburn look (for the '20s polo hero). Polo, tennis and golf-not as they were played but as they were watched-are central to the sporting-set concept...
That goal is still Nixon's special preoccupation. He eagerly asks Kissinger about North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho: "What kind of man is he?" Then he listens to the traveling professor spin out his stories, which by now are better than those of Marco Polo...
...What record does Randy Matson hold? What about Bob Seagren? What country has won the most Olympic water polo tournaments? When was the last time they...
...good many Indians, behaving in a more British fashion than the British is cricket-even though until independence in 1947, most cricket clubs, not to mention polo and tennis clubs as well, were strictly off-limits to all but the most powerful or wealthy Indians...