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DIED. CAROL MATTHAU, 78, gossipy memoirist and widow of actor Walter Matthau, whose friendships with the elite of New York City cafe society she wittily recounted in her 1992 book, Among the Porcupines; of a brain aneurysm; in New York City. Before her 41-year marriage to Matthau, she was twice wed to playwright William Saroyan. She had a long friendship with Truman Capote, who, she claimed, modeled the character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's after...
Participants born in May or October, for instance, met at the bar of the Border Cafe. Those born in January or July crowded around the table nearest the bathrooms of Au Bon Pain. They had no further instructions...
DIED. ELISABETH WELCH, 99, American-born expatriate cabaret and jazz singer, adored by Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Paris cafe society; outside London. A hit on the London stage, she later took her mellow voice to New York City; she made a splash in Porter's New Yorkers by singing Love for Sale, a song about prostitution. In the 1980s she won acclaim for her one-woman show A Time to Start Living and the musical revue Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood...
Seventeen itself has already entered the spa market. Last year it licensed its name to help launch the Seventeen studio.spa.salon www.seventeenspa.com) a day spa in Plano, Texas, which offers facials, massages, waxing and an Internet cafe; additional outlets are planned for other cities. Whereas Seventeen's spa was designed with teens in mind, most day spas have been able to welcome young people without sacrificing a sophisticated aura and clientele; they merely modify the treatments they offer to adolescents. At the Tiffani Kim Institute in Chicago, Hannah Song, 17, is receiving a Growing Pains Relief massage. "I'm stressed," says...
...Beckmann was a medical orderly in the trenches of Flanders. The Belgian front, where he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, would show him fractured form with a vengeance. Especially after the raw meat and blasted earth of the trenches, why care how you broke up goblets and cafe tables? Similarly, the Expressionist and Symbolist art of the prewar era, with its yearning toward transcendence, seemed now like an evasion of the duty to show the age its true, terrifying face...