Word: rigueur
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Cutting across 125th Street for the de rigueur sight of Harlem, the elderly, enthusiastic bus guide warns them mysteriously not to take pictures from the window. "Is Harlem better or worse than you expected?" he asks. "Better!" Later the visitors disperse to collect impressions of Manhattan on their own. Marc Horber, a kitchenware manufacturers' representative from Nancy, and his son Eric, 17, walk through Chinatown and Little Italy. Father finds the city "a grand has-been," but to his son, "It is very different from France, everyone living in his own territory, very dirty, but full of life...
More generally, homosexuals adopted long hair before it became de rigueur for young males of all persuasions; once long hair was in, the gays led the swing to short back and sides. There is, in fact, a saying among homosexuals that straights will adopt a fashion just as avante-garde gays are turning to something...
...layered look was In. Last year it was the lumberjack look (TIME, Nov. 29). Willy, or more probably nilly, the doyens of fashion were making warm, practical sense. In this winter of American discomfort, it is not only chic-for men as well as women-but positively de rigueur to be decked out like an able-bodied seaman on the Murmansk...
...festival did try to add a touch of spice, which seems to have become de rigueur since Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris stirred things up four years ago. But this year's offering, In the Realm of the Senses, directed by Japan's Nagisa Oshima, was impounded by U.S. customs officials after they viewed it at a press screening. Nobody seemed to mind much, which probably had less to do with indifference to civil liberties than with general embarrassment over the quality of the film. In the Realm of the Senses is like the customs...
...During the wedding celebrations, Monsieur Legros de Rumigny, the Parisian cook turned coiffeur nonpareil, was accidentally smothered to death in a brawling crowd. The famed 38 styles described in Legros's L'Art de la Coëffure des Dames Françoises had become de rigueur for all the best heads in Europe. But with the tastemaker gone, faddism has flourished-so much so that European ladies of fashion can now consult a 39-volume behemoth that illustrates no fewer than 3,774 current hair styles, many of them preposterous variations on the once decorous pompadour...