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Nancy Reagan, her hair swept back into a chignon anchored by four pearl-and-diamond clasps, and wearing a stunning beaded, one-shoulder James Galanos gown, stayed at her husband's side as they visited all ten balls. At a few stops, Reagan spoke of the hostages-"prisoners of war," he purposefully called them-but generally he kept to an aw-shucks-so-glad-you're-here routine. Said he to guests at the Washington Hilton: "I've finally decided that I'm not going to wake up. It isn't a dream." The Reagans...
Pomp & Circumstance. The local maestro may not be Mr. Kenneth (the man responsible for Jackie Kennedy's bouffant), Alexandre of Paris (who whipped up the celebrated chignon that adorned Elizabeth Taylor at her last wedding), or London's Vidal Sassoon (whose clients are expected to come in at least three times a week). But he is deft with a spray can, and a real wizard when it comes to teasing...
...Medical Journal, report use of the gadget in 100 cases at Worcester. The metal cup is inserted in the opening of the birth canal and applied to the baby's skull. Pressure is reduced to half an atmosphere or less, so the scalp develops a big bump or "chignon," which fills the cup. Danger of maternal infection is reduced, the doctors assert, because no foreign body passes beyond the baby's head. Risk of injury to the mother-and apparently to the baby-is virtually eliminated. The chignon subsides within a couple of hours after birth. A major...
...gallery devoted to the art of the 20th century, the atmosphere is established by two great works in it--both of them by Picasso, both dated 1901. La Femme au Chignon is a pre-Blue Period work in which the elongations and winding curves of the Art Nouveau and the flat picture plane and pure colors of Gauguin are employed to render a mood which is Picasso's alone. The other painting, the Maternite, is a great masterpiece of the Blue Period, an altar-piece of modern painting. Its cool blues, El Grecoesque modeling of the light on the draperies...
...second floor gallery arcade. In all, though, I'm afraid that I'll just have to fall back on local pundit-philosopher S. Marshall Cohen's Confucius Say about the Harvard museum situation: "One in the Fogg is worth two in the Busch."PICASSO: La Femme au Chignon...