Word: shopgirls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike most members of the class of '43, Nancy Davis did not plunge from college straight into marriage. Indeed, she was out in the world from 1943 to 1952, first as a Marshall Field's shopgirl in Chicago, then as a bit-part Broadway actress, then as a successful Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Still, even as she pursued a Hollywood career, she wanted everyone to understand that her hopes and dreams were safely conventional. Her "childhood ambition," she wrote on her MGM biographical questionnaire at 27, was "to be an actress." But her "greatest ambition" was "to have...
...group of private investors for $68 million, in cash, of course, and then in May of this year to Associated Dry Goods for $96 million, again in cash. Associated's new ownership of Loehmann's amounts to a princess's consorting with a shopgirl; its other properties include New York's Lord & Taylor, one of the most dressed-up stores in America...
...victim of a weak national economy and a line of strong women. The latter included his grandmother, an un challenged matriarch of Morrisonville, Va.; his wife, an orphanage-hardened shopgirl; and especially his mother, who had a "passion for improving the male of the species, which in my case took the form of forcing me to 'make something of my self.' " She had him, at a tender age, delivering newspapers, flogging the Saturday Evening Post and, in preparation for a career in show business, taking banjo lessons...
Those early minis were also something of a joke, of course. Some Quant creations consisted of less material than a Victorian hanky and-at eleven inches above the knee-barely covered the area once reserved for underwear. On the way up from the pert Chelsea shopgirl look, the ultrashort skirt was given the imprimatur of couture by Parisian Designer André Courrèges in the middle '60s. The mini's bon voyage across the Atlantic was largely the work of Enfant Terrible Rudi Gernreich, who was not only the first U.S. designer to bare the thigh...
Scenes of suburban serenity are offset by vignettes of urban depravity: Tyte drinking tea, chatting and gardening in Stone St. Martin is juxtaposed with Tyte turning tricks in a London parking lot. The most pathetic victims of his lies are the seduced shopgirl and his neglected daughter, the former sliding into alcoholism, the latter turning into a potentially dangerous sociopath like her father. Trevor has an uncanny understanding of love, delusion, hope and, in Tyte's case, the buried anger that "had driven him in search of presents." It is a tribute to the author's moral instincts...