Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beige & Brass. An obvious exception to his rule is Pauline Trigere, 53, who is not only a designer but on the best-dressed list herself. Her evening capes and jaguar-skin coats are naturals for dramatic entrances in restaurants and at opening nights. Petite Mollie Parnis, 61, has executed dresses for three First Ladies, Mamie, Jackie and Lady Bird. Dashing Oscar de la Renta, 32, did Anne Ford's wedding gown and Ethel Kennedy's Latin American tour wardrobe...
...Brass. He favors soft colors and subtle tailoring, but once in a while he lets go with a really jazzy number in sequins or the sizzling print preferred by Mrs. William Anderson III of Nash ville, Tenn. Newest designer to hit the big league is elfin (5 ft. 8 in.) Chester Weinberg, 35, whose first collection this fall was snapped up by Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor. Among his early clients: Manhattan Socialite Judy Peabody-and Barbra Streisand...
Rolls expects to retain all of Bristol Siddeley's 30,000 workers. Only one important personnel change is contemplated under the merger. Sir James Denning Pearson, 58, the chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce, has long doubled in brass as the company's top engineer. Now he will hold one position: chief executive of the merged company...
Destination: office. Driving time: Beethoven's Third Symphony, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and, depending on traffic, two or three numbers by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Driver squiggles into bucket seat, straps on safety belt, injects stereotape cartridge into dashboard holder, and, to the engulfing strains of the 100-piece Boston Symphony, rolls away on wheels of song...
...structure, with two other second-storey platforms that roll in from the sides. These make some of the entrances and exits needlessly awkward. Domingo Rodriguez' costumes are, some details aside, generally apposite, and Tharon Musser's lighting is somewhat too active. John Duffy's opening A-minor music for brass, cymbals and kettledrums smacks too much of a Near East movie spectacular, but the later rustic music, in the traditional rustic key of F-major, is much better. When a lutenist appears on stage, though, we hear a harp; couldn't it at least be a guitar...