Word: amanda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They say that Co-Chairman Amanda Burden asked Susan Stein: "What shall we wear?" And they say that Co-Chair man Susan Stein replied: "Nothing...
...York Shake speare Festival is usually Dullsville. Last week's affair was anything but - a fact that was signaled in advance by the peekaboo, fold-out invitations created by Stage Designer Rouben Ter-Aru-tunian, replacing the universally ordi nary engraved white cards. The rea son was that Amanda-darling, daughter of Mrs. William S. Paley, and Susan, bright offspring of MCA Founder Jules Stein, got a couple of dozen beautiful young people to show up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in "nude" fashions inspired by Shakespearean heroines and created for the occasion by U.S. and European designers...
Katharine Balfour, dressed as Calpurnia, even hacked up an old nightgown to wear under Pauline Trigère's see-through black lace sheath. "I'm just furious at her," fumed Trigère, who had intended the dress to be worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked...
...none of this prepared Amanda for the shock. She was just out of bed and barely into her morning paper in her Manhattan apartment at the Dakota (same floor as Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall) when she spotted her name in boldface. Down dropped her paper and her aplomb...
...gasped, "did they put me on top of their list? I don't go to Paris to buy my dresses. I buy them off the rack at Bendel's." Had she learned any secrets from her mother? "None at all. We are completely different," said Amanda, who thinks white is her best nighttime color, likes fake jewelry and textured stockings...