Word: candlelit
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Down the long elegant candlelit years since Le Pavilion opened in Manhattan in 1941, even the most jaded of gourmets have agreed that there was no restaurant in the U.S. quite like it. Founded in the finest French tradition by Master Restaurateur Henri Soule, Le Pavilion immediately established itself as the very best of a small but choice selection of places in which it was as gratifying to be seen as it was to be served the splendid fare. No detail was unimportant to Soule. He used only Baccarat crystal, for instance, and seated guests as carefully as he selected...
...Helen Suzman called the hostels an "Orwellian horror." White women, churchmen and students staged placard protests. Some of the shock felt by chic matrons over the city's "white by night" policy, as it is called, was undoubtedly at the prospect of having no servants to wait on candlelit dinner parties-but by no means all of it was. At a jampacked citizens' meeting, Anglican Bishop John Carter condemned the hostels as the work of "morally sick" people. Said one white housewife: "My maid, who is 66 years old, just wept and said to me: 'Madam...
...fresh vocabulary. The Caravaggisti were not a closely knit group or even a specially gifted one-though they included some painters of undeniable power, like Orazio Gentileschi. They assiduously imitated Caravaggio's chiaroscuro. The manner spread to France and The Netherlands. Georges de La Tour's candlelit night pieces, for instance, sprang from it, and Hendrick Terbrugghen used it with distinction. But his influence stimulated no great painters in Rome, for, by then, there were none left to stimulate. The grand vindication came later, when Rembrandt took Caravaggio's worn flesh and epiphanies of light and gave...
...telepathy sessions are supplemented by Saturday-evening services that seem rather mild for a sect that includes Satan among its gods. The services consist mainly of prayers, spontaneous dialogues and hymns, punctuated by guitars, gongs, drumbeats and incense. In the candlelit worship room, the goat's head and the cross share equal prominence. Christ's enmity with Satan, say the Processeans, will eventually be overcome by Christ's own dictum to "love thine enemy." For Processeans, that eventuality is near at hand, for they believe in the imminent end of the world...
...physical-fitness instructor tells me I have the legs of an athlete," said that paragon of peacockery, Liberace. Last week Lee was tickling his candlelit keys and twinkling his athletic knees in a wardrobe that even for flesh-fatigued Las Vegas seemed a bit much: red-white-and-blue hot pants. And jeweled shoes with matching socks. And a red-white-and-blue purse. Cost of the outfit: $4,000, which, after all, is a mere pittance compared with the $1,000,000 or so that the world's prettiest pianist has spent on clothes over the past twelve...