Word: chinchillaed
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...company, with 145 members, for a four-week tour of Australia. Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good. Bewigged footmen in period costume bowed as they opened the doors of Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Jaguars and Daimlers for elegant women wearing chinchilla and diamond tiaras, distinguished men in white tie and tails as they passed through the chilly Australian winter night into Her Majesty's Theater. The glittering audience that had paid an Australian record top of $23.50 for a seat were treated to the city's finest opera performance...
...committed himself to no single shape, cavalierly offering up silhouettes ranging from tentlike A-lines to baggy harem skirts. What interests Sarmi is fabric. There were amethyst, ruby and emerald velvets, cloth-of-gold studded with glass "jewels," acres of feathery chiffon, columns of ostrich plumes, bands of chinchilla, and bodices of shimmering bugles and bangles...
Unable to aerate his conscience, the adulterer decides to smother it with chinchilla. Claudia adores the coat, never suspecting that she will soon have to shoulder her husband's guilt as well. Suddenly, it occurs to Tognazzi that his wife may be no better than anyone else's. She is young, beautiful, a treasure coveted by his doctor, his lawyer, his gardener, and that antique dealer who -but, of course! Now he begins to see, or thinks he sees, the guile in her innocence. He starts checking the mileage of her midget car, monitors her phone calls...
...FURS: Mink coats always sell well for Christmas, but the trend this year is to small evening pieces, such as ascots ($80), short jackets ($595-$895) and stoles ($695). Lord & Taylor has a French sheared rabbit that is made to look like chinchilla ($695) and a sheared rabbit dyed bright red that looks like a sheared rabbit dyed bright...
...open its 77th season, the audience paid a record-breaking $94,294.50 at the box office, with orchestra seats going for $45 apiece and an eight-seat box for $650. The crowd was enthusiastic, glittering (inveterate Social Moth Hope Hampton, a onetime operatic hopeful, appeared splattered with sequins, chinchilla and diamonds), but, as Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker reminded his readers, scarcely Top Drawer. The Old Guard, as opposed to Publiciety, celebrates the opening on the second Monday of the season. What saved the night socially, according to Knickerbocker, was the presence of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, whose intervention last summer saved...