Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bennington's freewheeling pursuit of culture imposes a self-respecting discipline of its own. The girls are under intense pressure to prove their talents. "When you get in a class with ten people," says one student, "everything is pretty well laid bare after an hour and a half. If all you've done is read a pony, everyone knows it, and it's the most humiliating feeling in the world...
Director Richard Lester, who caught the quintessence of Beatlemania in A Hard Day's Night, sails into The Knack with the same bare-knuckled boldness but less satisfying results. The movie is always inventive and often hilarious, for Lester is not a man to let substance interfere with a sight gag. On film, the characters racket hither and yon in the fashionable New Cinema manner, but they rarely seem insecure, subtly tyrannized by their own drives, or even significantly related to one another...
There are some bright spots in the book. Betsy's letters to Mary have the genuine mock-jovial tragic confessional touch of an unhappy person indulging in the fascination of watching herself go to pot. These letters, more than the dozens of other pages spent on the subject, lay bare the workings of her involuted psyche...
...consolation of being on to a good thing. Their gown-featured in the June Vogue and snapped up by such fashion luminaries as Mrs. William Paley and Actress Anita Colby-is the dress of the month, and sounds one of the strongest fashion chords of 1965: the one-bare shoulder look. Jackie Kennedy may have triggered the trend when she wore a black crepe version for her first formal outing after a year of mourning. It has been used by Balenciaga in a $3,000 evening sari, by Givenchy in a flock of dinner gowns and daytime dresses...
Many times, experts have declared that Rudolf II's huge Hradčany palace was thoroughly bare. So did Czech Art Historian Jaromir Neumann, 40-at first. While studying inventories, Neumann found discrepancies suggesting that some old masters might still be lying around. And he found them-coated with dirt and varnish that has taken 22 restorers 2½ years to scour off. Now these 74 noble remnants, mostly from Rudolf II's collection, are on view again, some of them back in the marble-floored stables of Prague's Hradčany (see opposite page...