Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viennese fortunetelling Tarot cards. Across the nation, the sale of Ouija boards has tripled in the past year, even the Harvard University Co-op sells out whenever it stocks them. Zodiac sign guessing has become part of the social chitchat, and fashion magazines, such as Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country, have yielded to the fad, started regular monthly horoscope columns...
...Devil's Instinct." The same kind of response is beginning to hit the U.S. Françoise has a couple of pages of photographs in December's Vogue, and she has been shot for Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Look and Esquire. And that is undoubtedly just the beginning. Her first major U.S. film, Grand Prix, premièred last week in Manhattan. Her role as a race-circuit follower consists of little more than ten walk-on scenes, but she walks off with every one of them...
...Harper's Bazaar, Jack Benny paid characteristic attention to a scheme for avoiding gift giving altogether. "There's a printer in Hollywood," he reported, "who makes up special cards (100 for $1.98), stating: 'A generous contribution has been made in your name to . . . etc.' You invent your own country or small province in Africa or Asia just to be safe." Even so, Benny admitted that he is sometimes seized by the urge to give a gift. "On such occasions, I try to recall those joyful words uttered by Tiny Tim when he opened his presents...
...decided that it was time to reminisce. In Quant by Quant, a precocious autobiography, she gaily details the way she broke into hot couture with her husband and business manager, Alexander Plunket Greene. "We were mad; the whole thing was hysterical," writes Mary, recalling the opening of their famous Bazaar shop in Chelsea. "The trade ignored us, they laughed at us openly." But she gives high fashion the needle right back. Mary observes happily: "Quite a number of the women who are awarded the annual title of 'best dressed women' are square...
...What's beginning to happen in our houses," says ex-Model China Machado, now an editor on Harper's Bazaar, "is that we are developing a Designer's Look." Each designer strives to create an individual personality that comes across in all his clothes; and they range from, say, the kooky inventiveness of Rudi Gernreich to the effortless poise of Ferdinando Sarmi. As to the best U.S. designers, each fashion expert has his preference, but two are universally ranked...