Word: apres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long soak in a hot bath. Hot buttered rum, Glühwein or glogg, and a spicy new potion called the Broken Leg -bourbon, hot apple juice, cinnamon, cloves, raisins and lemon-are also good therapy for aching muscles. Then it is time to dress for the pleasures of après-ski. Slacks and pants suits are popular, but many girls, tired of pants after wearing them all day skiing, are switching to skirts, some of them mini, more of them of the long, hostess variety. Turtleneck T shirts are In, but they must be made of synthetics, since...
...Vicky," an aggressive socialist who over 25 years leveled his pen at everyone on his right from John Foster Dulles, whom he showed brandishing H-bombs, to Tory Harold Macmillan, whom he drew as the winged "Supermac," and Charles de Gaulle, whom he captioned with the famed inverted quotation, "Après le déluge-moil"; of as yet undetermined causes; in London...
Standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm, up to his knees in water, le grand Charles shouts: "Après le déluge...
Zany Zebra. Kuku and Kaplan are not alone. Bergdorf Goodman has a zany "zebra" dress made from Italian lamb and Russian broadtail. The black broadtail stripes are individually cut and hand-sewn into the white lamb, all for $2,700. Pour l'après ski, Revillon has whipped up a horizontally stitched chinchilla jacket with matching chinchilla boots...
...Averell Harriman gave the $5.5 million neo-Norman castle and its 100 acres of parkland to Columbia. Alumnus Averell and his brother Roland picked up the tab for converting the old homestead into a conference center (item: a new roof at $165,000) for the university. For après la classe, it has a swimming pool, golf course and tennis courts-plus a lake for fishing and a bar for socializing, both well-stocked. Businessese is fluently spoken by all hands...