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...imported two hairdressers, one from New York and one from Los Angeles, and took one of them along during a helicopter ride to an event so she could arrive freshly combed. The old Republican cloth coat that was good enough for Pat Nixon seemed destined for extinction...
...Inauguration, Reagan will be the first President since J.F.K. to wear formal morning attire. The selection, made by Reagan himself: an Italian-style black jacket of barathea cloth and striped gray woolen trousers with a three-button dove-gray vest, an outfit for which Reagan's Beverly Hills tailor, Frank Mariani, will charge him $1,250. Average rental price of a similar suit for Washington dignitaries: $42. The new President has no head for toppers. Nancy has a new mink in the closet, but may forgo it in favor of a Republican cloth coat. The Reagans' attire will...
...carry on portentously. Even her love scenes are handled with ludicrous discretion. One comes to imagine that she has been impregnated with her illegitimate child by Fate itself, since it is impossible to think that any human could get through the 40 yds. or so of stout English cloth that Polanski insists on wrapping around...
...Last Supper, with Christ and his twelve Disciples). The 39 settings commemorate mythic or real women, goddesses and culture heroines, from the Bona Dea of prehistory to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each consists of a porcelain goblet, porcelain cutlery and a large plate, all reposing on ornamental cloth runners. Most of the plates bear designs based on the female genital organs, though one of them, representing English Composer Ethel Smyth, is in the shape of a grand piano, and another, commemorating the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth, depicts two heads, one weeping and the other angry, drawn in a style that...
...soft classical music. Zhao's private quarters are similarly sparse--a night table, a chest of drawers and a neatly made bed. In the kitchen, where Zhao stands over the stove cooking lunch for his guest, there is little but the essentials. A small table covered with an oil cloth (and a glass bowl holding seven oranges and a package of Beechnut gum) serves for a dining room...