Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a satin belt, while Guy Laroche took off with a multicolor batwing evening dress. From Lanvin came a sheer-topped gown with delicate pastel embroidery, and from Courrèges, a skirt and blouse combination laden with ruffles. For most of high fashion's critics, clients, and trend watchers, the week's main feature was the Saint Laurent collection. Paris' No. 1 designer, who launched the costume revolution with his Russian, gypsy, Cossack fashions of 1976, had presaged a return to modernity with his ready-to-wear show last October. "There is no more revolution," observed...
LIKE SHERMAN IN GEORGIA, the trend in watery luxuries for the home--water beds, Water Pics, and vibrating shower heads--marches relentlessly back to the sea. Gone are the days when a lawn sprinkler and a fish bowl sufficed to adequately furnish a home with aquatic appliances. In recent months advertisements for a $1200 bathtub have been catching the eye of readers of national magazines. California--birthplace of car customizing, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Jerry Brown--now offers what may prove to be the new wave of America's vassergeist: California Hot Tubbing...
...lowest share since the early '60s. But the company has high hopes for its Omni compact, which made its debut last week. At a list of $3,706, the Omni is Detroit's first front-wheel-drive car with a transverse engine, and has earned Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year" award, which is usually a boost for sales...
...trying to outdo one another with increasingly elaborate and expensive Olympic facilities, at Innsbruck, Grenoble, Sapporo. Six years ago, however, after Denver was named for the 1976 Olympics, environmentalists organized opposition, and Colorado voters finally rejected the Games. The Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee then decided to reverse the trend. "We could all see the writing on the wall, see that the Games were pricing themselves out of reach for many countries," explains LPOOC President Ronald M. MacKenzie, 75, a former skier and speed skater who was also a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic bobsled team. "What...
America's new sentimental journey, believes Psychologist Gordon, may spring from the active efforts of many Americans to find something better than "the depersonalization of sex and relationships" that has occurred in recent years. Others think that, in some mysterious way, it is related to a conservative trend in national politics; even Jimmy Carter, with his homespun ways, kissin'-cousin courtliness and studied gentility, is given credit for restoring some sentiment to the land. To many, the search for form and formality, the yearning for tradition and sentiment, are part of the mysterious emotional process by which...