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Museum Piece. The initiation rite carries the cachet of having been quilled in the 17th century by the Earl of Rochester (Tynan unearthed parts of it in the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Other notable contributors include 19th century French Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine, French Playwright Eugene Ionesco and Tynan himself. As director, Tynan chose another Calcutta alumnus, Clifford Williams, formerly of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...weird way, this show exhales as musty and involuntary a breath of vanished time as any revival of neoclassicism. Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup can, once considered an icon of intimidating cool, has become a sort of madeleine. Irrevocably, the cachet of pop has gone, and many of its artifacts now look tenuous. It cannot be long before some enterprising museum (the Metropolitan?) opens a '60s Period Room, to go with its transplanted Louis Quinze paneling and reassembled colonial parlor: a Wesselmann and a Warhol Marilyn on the stainless-steel walls, a coffee table strewn with...
...problems have no relation to ours.") The Nixon White House regarded him as a special thorn, and internal memorandums depicted him as a paradigm of the influential journalists who badgered the Administration. Further criticism followed his decision-after retiring from the program-to lend his anchor man's cachet to airline commercials. As board chairman and promoter of Big Sky, a planned $20 million Montana resort area, Huntley was attacked by conservationists...
...teen-ager with a pocketful of dimes, there was no better way to while away idle hours than maneuvering a steel ball through a maze of obstacles, while lights blinked and a noisy digital Scoreboard recorded points with a distinctive bong. But pinball, alas, lost some of its cachet in high-speed modern life-until 18 months ago when there appeared a new breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race car. Besides giving birth to a nationwide fad, the games have also revived the sagging coin...
...condition that are barely visible to the amateur. If Ledoux bought, say, a Utamaro, something had to be dropped from his chosen 250 to make room for it. Ledoux was a polisher, not a grabber; and as a result, any print that provably comes from his collection has enormous cachet for collectors of Japanese art today...