Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points one seeks to conceal and whose better features one tries to enhance," she says. Torun has turned out simple circle necklaces to which a variety of pendants can be added and which can thus be used on any occasion. But mostly her work is done with a particular client in mind: "Jewelry must marry the contours of a woman's body-in a word, be sensuous...
...Barbecue Team. To win industrial clients, A.D.L. keeps the jobs it does for them secret until they request publicity, will not even admit it has ever worked for a company unless the company gives express permission. To avoid the suspicion that it might use information gleaned from one client to benefit another, Little will take no job if it has ever worked for a competitor on a similar task...
...emphasis on abstraction, the art committee achieved a remarkable variety. A secretary may take dictation under the eyes of John Trumbull's Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, while another types letters near some floating rectangles by Mark Rothko. A client, his mind a mass of figures, hustles past a superb African sculpture and suddenly finds himself confronting an 18th century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist...
Upon arriving, the giddy client repairs to (he dressing room, where her street clothes are shorn from her apprehensive body, and is given a pink Balmain-designed gown and gold plastic slippers. Then she can take it all off again for a dip in the sunken Roman bath (bubble, spa or sea water), dry herself on prewarmed towels, and get a massage ($10). Then, any one of the eleven well-coifed hairdressers, costumed in black suits with red linings, will perform a variety of hairdos, right on up to a $35 permanent, after which comes a sprawl in the drying...
...oldest blackmail games, he had paid $750,000 to the conspirators, among them his own British aide. Eventually, the truth came out and the case went to court, where Sir Hari's own counsel, Lord John Simon (later Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer), described his client as "a poor, green, shivering, abject wretch." Sir Hari returned home to face the wrath of his uncle, the then Maharajah, who banished him to a remote jungle estate for six months and made him perform ritual acts of humiliation and penance...