Word: robert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tokyo in the 1960s-dreams of finding the Hiroshige print White Rain at Shōno under his Christmas tree. "Alas, my chances are slim," he admits. "It was auctioned at Christie's New York this year for $13,000." But no art, thank you, for Art Critic Robert Hughes, who wrote this week's Essay on collecting. Says Hughes, who has received his share of free samples from would-be-but-weren't Picassos: "I'll accept anything anybody chooses to give me, except unsolicited artwork...
Without their perfumes, many of the top French fashion names would simply disappear. Robert Ricci, head of the Nina Ricci firm, openly concedes that his firm could not exist without its worldwide perfume sales. Says he: "It is very difficult to make money out of clothes, and impossible out of haute couture. "High sales volume cannot be achieved with clothes, since no one style can ever have really broad appeal. Perfumes, by contrast, are bought everywhere, in all seasons and by all kinds of people, from secretaries to socialites. L'Air du Temps and other fragrances account...
Some French fashion chiefs are indignant. Robert Ricci complains that the assertive American-type perfumes should "only appeal to jet-setters who want to shock." Lanvin's marketing director, Jean-Louis Delpuech, scoffs that U.S. perfume makers have tended "to go 'down market' to a type of woman who demands more smell for her money." But others are more philosophical about the demand for perfumes with staying power. Robert Young, president of Yves Saint Laurent perfumes, traces the taste for strong fragrances to the same craving for identity that makes people want designer names on their clothes...
...Directed by Steven Spielberg; Written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale...
...come in all ages and types. There are jitterbugging kids at a USO dance (Treat Williams, Bobby DiCicco), trigger-happy soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also fly by along the film's manic way. Indeed, 1941's players are so numerous and di verse that one almost expects cameos by the Dead End Kids or maybe Anna...