Word: tahitian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born Kenzo Takada, 37. In his winter collection shown last April, Kenzo, as he calls himself, experimented with long, blousy sweaters meant to be worn over tights or leg warmers. Growing bolder this season, he has whipped up short gathered skirts topped with floral-print smocks. The motif is Tahitian-Polynesian, and Kenzo tops it off with aloha leis...
...original reason for Cook's voyage is less grandiose. It derives from his last trip (1772-75), when one of his officers insisted on bringing a native Tahitian back to England as a souvenir (and promised that he would eventually be returned home). The Tahitian, a youth named Omai, soon became the pet of London Society. Dressed up in an elaborate frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons." Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait of him in a turban. He was even introduced to King George...
...Christmas tree, nothing pretentions, but if I know my governor-generals they don't just let the day slip by. I mean, the governor-general probably gets Christmas cards from people he knows back home, and for all I know he may even send some out himself, with a Tahitian theme or something. A native girl lying under a Christmas tree, I don't know...
...Arizona chef used fillet of road runner; the Tennessee champion boasted of his raccoon. The Hawaiian contingent made its stock (it said) from a "tired Samoan fighting cock." Californian and Texan experts used some 40 varieties of chili peppers, ranging from the relatively mild Big Jim to a Tahitian product that would blow the bow off the Bounty. For added flavoring, rival chili heads stirred in dried armadilla blood, tequila, beer and, it was reported, marijuana. Singer Kathryn Grayson's "All-American chili" incorporated meatballs, Italian-style. The ingredients used by Girl Scout Troop 256 from Odessa, Texas, were...
...Paris, it's New Jimmy's and Le Regine. In Monte Carlo, the snob spots for drinking and dancing are the Maona (Tahitian), Para-dize (Brazilian) and New Jimmyz (art deco). The woman who manages all this, sometime Singer Regine (nee Zylberberg), 45, now plans new discothèques in Rio and Manhattan. "Life begins with the first cocktail," says the lady who introduced le twist to Paris. "She only sleeps three hours a night," adds her husband and former secretary, Roger Choukroun. The cabaret queen is also branching out into fashion design. Her first collection, introduced...