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...drive them somewhere else, and the word again goes round that "Nobody goes there any more, my dear." One island so In that almost no body knows about it is Barbuda, an 18th century slave-breeding ground 15 miles long by about five wide, with one hotel called Coco Point Lodge, where Britain's Princess Margaret came on her honeymoon to stay two days, and lingered on for five. Ten-room Coco Point is so posh that its staff has a staff, quartered in a separate building, and for $85 a day the management will provide a couple with...
...without funds. As husband and wife debate their dilemma and their relationship, the camera feels its way like a sybarite over the textures of the setting and the people. The props are excruciatingly chic, ranging from Aubusson tapestries and Canaletto paintings to Actress Schneider's Coco Chanel clothes. At one point, Pupe manages to wriggle out of these clothes with one hand while telephoning with the other in what is surely one of the more provocative stripteases to be recorded on film. The scene proves a heady aphrodisiac to the count, and they settle on a deal whereby...
...Chicha & Coco. "We treat our colonos very well. They have no cause for complaint," says Luna's foreman. "If they want it," he says, "we even give them a daily ration of chicha and coca." Chicha is a crude corn whisky; coca is a mild narcotic leaf that deadens pain and kills hunger. Luna lets his peasants graze a limited number of livestock free (most hacendados charge one head for ten as a grazing fee). He also allots each family two acres of cropland on which to grow food-potatoes and corn, and in season turnips and cabbage...
...novelty's sake. She devotes her energies to barely noticeable refinements of detail of her suits and dresses, e.g., jackets are shorter this year, a little closer to the body. With scissors hanging from a ribbon around her neck and her four fingers firmly together in a characteristic Coco gesture as she pats a new suit in various places, she may say: "Make a pleat here, an intelligent pleat." One of this year's suits was changed 35 times after being made up before Coco was satisfied...
...money every year on its fashion division, which is carried by the perfume profits. Some 80% of Chanel sales are made abroad, and her clothes have been copied all over the world, right down to a U.S. cotton model retailing for $10. The secret of fashion is simple, says Coco: "One always begins by making dream dresses. Then one has to take away something. Always to take off, never to add. Some people think luxury is the contrary of being poor. No, it is the contrary of vulgarity...