Word: yves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the general secretary of the South Africa Council of Churches, Jacques Yves Cousteau, the marine explorer, and Milton Friedman, the Nobel-Prize winning economist, also received degrees...
...sure, catalogue vendors lost no money on such stocking stuffers as a $45 sterling silver Perrier bottle opener with two silver bottle caps or a $140 one-inch-high sterling tea set. A $200 King Tut bust was bought by some 7,400 holders of American Express cards. Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, at $100 an ounce, sold like, well, opium. Beverly Hills' David Orgell disposed of all 18 of his catalogue-advertised $750 sterling-silver telephones...
...study, a bibliophile's opulent dream, though Holmes is so busy shooting up cocaine that it is questionable whether he could lift a book. It is also about an opium den so suggestive of for bidden and abandoned pleasures that it might serve as ad copy for Yves Saint Laurent's new perfume. One visual stunner provided by John Wulp is a fog-shrouded encounter between a steam launch and a schooner on the Thames...
Even those who had never read Camus became familiar with the chain-smoking figure in a trench coat, fatefully evocative of Bogart and Yves Montand. Much was made of his celebrated statement that in a purposeless world the only vital question was one of suicide. His novels The Stranger and The Fall describe souls out of touch with a moral landscape; The Plague watches townspeople succumb to a literal and spiritual disease. It is small wonder that at his death Camus seemed the spokesman of despairing existentialism, a cinematic figure as doom-ridden as any of his characters...
...That prospect pleases the Dior staff, which has seen the firm's profits sink year after year into the bottomless Boussac pit. Partly as a result, Dior has not had resources to invest in new products and outlets needed to keep from falling behind such dynamic competitors as Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin...