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...girls need big diamonds," says Supermodel Margaux Hemingway, who boasts of being 5-ft. 12-in. tall. Nevertheless, a 105.54-carat diamond rocked her. "It was so big, it looked fake," she says. The brobdingnagian bauble called the soleil d'or (golden sun), owned by a private American collector, was shown to Margaux during the taping of a French talk show. As a ring of security guards looked on nervously, Margaux tossed the stone up in the air and caught it in her well-photographed white teeth. "I'm good at peanuts too," she said modestly. Are diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1977 | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...does the cast reveal any grace. In fairness, it must be hard to contend with roles like these: most of the male characters are pallid Tennessee Williams retreads, and the women are mere camp stereotypes. The movie's two quasi narrators - a tough dance teacher with a 14-carat heart (Helen Gallagher) and a slick M.C. (Don DeNatale) - are shamelessly derived from such sources as Cabaret, Sweet Chanty and They Shoot Horses, Don't They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slow Dancing | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...After five husbands and a few flirtations, Actress Elizabeth Taylor has managed to collect a nice little box of rocks. Among her favorite gems: the 69.42-carat Cartier diamond, the 33.10-carat Krupp diamond and the Peregrina pearl that once belonged to Mary Tudor. Soon she will be slipping her size 7½finger into a new bauble, courtesy of her current fiance, John Warner. The ring, designed by Warner himself, features a red, white and blue motif made from a ruby, diamond and sapphire, and it has been likened to a miniature fireworks display. Chances are, the design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Happy, Happy, Happy | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

There is, for instance, the 16,000.83-carat "Vulgari Emerald." In no way connected with famed Bulgari diamond merchants, of course, the Vulgari is surrounded by "diamonds and pearls. . . except for the third pearl from the left, which is courtesy of Woolworth's." Other gems are the " 'La Fabiola' Faerie Diamond," the "Royal Order of the Corset" rubies, and the social climber's special-an outsized pendant dubbed "The Fitz-Hall" ("and it does"), featuring France's Regent diamond, now barricaded in the Louvre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Cardboard Carats | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...figured in. At the other end of the retail spectrum: "We are having the best Christmas we have ever had," said Nicola Minelli, manager of a jampacked Gucci branch in Beverly Hills. Minelli was hard pressed to meet the demand for $6,000 "classic" handbags (lizard with 18-carat gold fittings and chain). At Manhattan's Tiffany & Co. consumers snatched up nine $3,800 calculator watches and about 2% miles of "diamonds by the yard." Chairman Walter Hoving reported a 38% sales leap over December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Santa the Supersalesman | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

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