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...with heels that are sculpted in such a way as to resemble the handles of kitchen utensils, the clothes seem irrelevant. You're in Donna's world and everything else falls away. In her world it's easy to imagine breezing down the red carpet in a patchwork chiffon caftan the color of sagebrush. But maybe in reality that would not be such a great idea. I must admit I'm the first to get swallowed up by Donna's desert dream - a place where a draped batik dress or a poplin tent dress can seem so essential. But when...
...school notice went up, six or seven Mount Temple students appeared in the Mullen kitchen and started playing Rolling Stones tunes. "During the course of the afternoon," Mullen remembers, "I saw that some people could play. The Edge could play. Adam just looked great. Big bushy hair, long caftan coat, bass guitar and amp. He talked like he could play, used all the right words, like gig. I thought, this guy must know how to play. Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn...
TAKE ME TO FUNKYTOWN Left to right: Chiffon trousers and top by Giorgio Armani; chiffon dress by Gianfranco Ferre; scarf by Giorgio Armani; vintage jewelry from Boucheron's Talitha Roman collection; caftan by Pucci; vintage gold, diamond and pearl necklace by Cartier; chiffon top by Christian Dior; pants by Chanel; vintage gold tiger's-eye diamond bracelet by Boucheron. On table: Venetian-glass-beaded bag by Bottega Veneta; beaded bag by Giorgio Armani...
...then Hungary and is now Romania. "Jewish fanatacism shone in his face," says his grandson Andor. Abraham was known for thumping children with a stick if they failed in their recitations. But he was also fearless: once leaping into a whirlpool on the River Tisza in his flowing black caftan to rescue a drowning child. On another occasion, when a local bailiff came to extract a bribe and ended up trying to run off with a tefillin, a sacred phylactery, Abraham attacked him mercilessly. The old man backed off only when his wife hustled the bailiff into the kitchen...
...until his father suggested he try to get a group together. The Saturday after the school notice went up, six or seven Mount Temple students appeared in the Mullen kitchen. "Some people could play," Mullen remembers. "The Edge could play. Adam [Clayton] just looked great. Big bushy hair, long caftan coat, bass guitar and amp. He talked like he could play, used all the right words, like 'gig.' Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such...