Word: bazaar
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...feathers whipped up by the designer known as Erte. He also created the lavish sets and languid costumes, trimmed with serpentine curlicues, that made some Metropolitan Opera productions beggar those of today. From 1915 to 1938, the lithe chiffon-draped mademoiselles that graced the covers of Harper's Bazaar were largely the work...
...amount of warning, however shrill, ever quite prepares a people for the air-raid siren's scream. The first wail is always difficult to believe. In Cairo, last week, it scarcely disturbed the morning bustle of the bazaar, or the gossip of black-clad women clucking along the banks of the muddy Nile. No matter that only the night before, President Gamal Abdel Nasser had welcomed Iraq to the Egypto-Jordanian alliance against Israel, and proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face...
...fashion model. Her lips are thin and subtle, her nose fine, her eyes a cool matte blue. There is something royal in her bearing and at the same time something girlish. The effect is delightfully incongruous. Says Peter Ustinov: "She's a mixture of Harper's bizarre and church bazaar." She is a mod goddess, Eleanor of Aquitaine in a miniskirt...
...that Harper's Bazaar "has become less literary and more topical" [Feb. 24]. Yet among the authors appearing since Nancy White became the editor in chief are Cyril Connolly, Jean Genet, Robert Musil, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene Ionesco, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Lowell, Jorge Luis Borges, Heinrich Böll, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Francoíse Mallet-Joris, Pierre Gascar...
ALICE S. MORRIS Consulting Literary Editor Harper's Bazaar Manhattan...