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...with an American organization distributing food and medical relief to postwar Europe. Thus, in 1922, the young Sonnenberg went back to Europe-armed this time with a salary and an expense account. He went to Rome, London and Paris; "the significance of having a man draw your bath and lay out your clothes," he told The New Yorker a quarter of a century later, "burst upon me like a revelation ... I think it was while feeding the people in Odessa, paradoxically, that I first decided to become a cross between Condé Nast and Otto Kahn...
...credenzas, hunt tables and German porter's chairs, a rare George III circular rent table), the 17th century English paneling for the William and Mary Room, the busts and knickknacks, the paintings and drawings, the metalwork, and so on down to the 54 tablecloths, 624 napkins and 283 bath towels, which by 1950 had become necessary to the running of this large establishment...
Christmas trees in America are public monuments too, symbols of communal celebration. In Bath, Me., the town's tree was placed atop a shipyard's 400-foot crane so it could be seen 30 miles away...
...awful boomerang fish). Miss Piggy has a wandering eye, however, and if the week's guest star happens to be a good-looking man, she latches onto him. After dancing the stirring pas de deux from Swine Lake with Rudolph Nureyev, she stalked the poor fellow into a steam bath and drove him forth with his towel askew...
...your everyday Hollywood boo-boo; the film is downright perverse. For a couple of hours, two of the screen's best actors, John Travolta and Lily Tomlin, walk around overdecorated rooms and whisper sweet nothings to each other. They have sex in a Jacuzzi full of bubble bath. They build sand castles on a Malibu beach. They fondle cute dogs. They say things like: "I don't even know what the word love means any more" and "I've had it with cheap sex." Is this someone's idea of a big joke...