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...bosoms or flatten them, by floating women's bodies in capes and drapes, shawls, cloaks, trains, panels, hoods, furbelows and twiddlybits, the great fashion houses emerge, year after year, as masters of trompe l'oeil. Otherwise, monitoring these collections would be like sitting through Aida for the 42nd time. As Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, of the French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with something new twice a year, though that is what we are demanding." What...
...Japanese mother playing happily with her child looks as if she had all the time in the world. Actually, Crown Princess Michiko of Japan stole a few moments from her hectic schedule to celebrate her 42nd birthday with Princess Nori, 7, the youngest of her three children, and Nori's pet dogs (they are chin, Japanese spaniels). In honor of the occasion, the crown princess granted a rare press conference and told reporters about her official visits this year to Yugoslavia, Jordan and Britain. As for the royal birthday, the princess joked: "You know, my classmates hate this time...
...Eighth Ave., is a space capsule in the guise of a library; its posters, Little Nemo postcards and Arthur Clarke first editions provide July's most dazzling sci-fireworks. Readers with kinkier inclinations can find New York's only semirespectable X-rated bookshop at 251 W. 42nd St. G&A Books has the kind that used to be banned in Boston. Given today's moral alterations, its clientele is now a band that could be booked there...
When I was a fifth-grader in New York City, I was taken by the teacher to visit the Daily News on 42nd Street. With great pride, he pointed out that the copy boys running about were making $9 a week, were all college graduates, and that there was a long waiting list for the job. The message was clear: life in New York City is tough, you have to struggle and still you won't make...
...Jackson, and she agrees to give out Woods' handbills. At a Giant Eagle supermarket, a woman who seems uninterested in the presidential election tells Woods he looks like a tall Kirk Douglas. Benjamin Woods (6 ft. 3 in.) also looks like a winner in the 42nd, and if Jackson ultimately is a loser, Woods will be with Humphrey in July...