Word: coco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their quest for synthetic perfection, the cruise lines have created their own ports of call. Disney's Castaway Cay in the Bahamas features three beaches and a 12-acre snorkeling lagoon. At Coco Cay, Royal Caribbean's 140-acre island, aquamarine waters lap at the white sand beach, while snorkelers explore a 16th century sailing ship and a small plane that the company submerged to give divers a sense of adventure. Alas, what Royal Caribbean calls a controlled shore experience some others have labeled a limited amusement experience. "There's nothing here but some palm trees," complained LaDonne Herring...
...could be worse. How would you like to be in charge of teaching current events? Or self-control? In Philadelphia, Ginny Coco teaches sixth-grade health at the J.R. Masterman School, and she had just got to "Sexuality and Decision Making" when the names Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers bumped Fidel and the Pope off the radar screen...
...Francisco--Versace to design costumes for a production of the San Francisco Opera. Erik Gruenwald, now a Los Angeles attorney, remembers that Cunanan approached him at Colossus, a local gay club, with exciting news. "I just met Gianni Versace," Cunanan told Gruenwald. "I said, 'Sure, and I'm Coco Chanel.'"A forthcoming article in Vanity Fair reports that Cunanan, now 27, had encountered Versace among a crowd backstage at the opera, and that Versace spoke to him, apparently thinking they had met at Lake Como in Italy, where Versace has a home. FBI agents told TIME that Cunanan and Versace...
...death of a fashion innovator does not necessarily spell doom for the company that bears his or her name. The fashion houses founded by Coco Chanel and Guccio Gucci, for example, continue to thrive long after their founders' passing. Yet such was the force of Gianni Versace's personality, life-style and flair for publicity, that the question of succession is more pertinent than ever: Without Versace, can his empire survive...
...reaffirm the differences between the Lampoon's Carnival and other commercial carnivals such as Disney World, Ehasz and his staffabandoned the pretentious patterns of celebrationcharacteristic of the last few years and insteadfilled the street with Coco the Monkey, clowns,singers, psychics and belly dancers. "These arenot famous people, never superstars, but they areall great, " added John J. Abbott, Jr. '96, Ibis."You don't pay them 10 bucks to see their show.You just walk down Mt. Auburn, and boom, you getentertainment from them...