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...suit: "She has a beautiful figure!" raves Scaasi. "The biggest change will be in the proportion" of her suits. Red Inaugural gown: "Didn't hate it, didn't love it," says Bloch, who'd prefer to see her in "cool, hip" American designers, like Karan or Klein. Blue Inaugural coat: "That blue is pure Washington," says Bloch. "There is no blue like that in nature! Achh!" Purple plaid suit, worn to meet Hillary Clinton: "Fire whoever put you in that!" snaps Bloch. Off-white gown, worn to Jacqueline Kennedy exhibit at the Met: Should have been white, says Scaasi, like...
...manners, Shakespeare, Dickens, the Bible. Narayan cleansed his English, so to speak, of all these associations, cleansed it of everything but irony, and applied it to his own little India. His people can eat off leaves on a floor in a slum tenement, hang their upper-cloths on a coat stand, do all that in correct English, and there is no strangeness, no false comedy, no distance...
...sitting in an upscale restaurant in midtown Manhattan, lampooning John F. Kennedy for his "two minute" sex romps and bragging about his own bullterrier's sex drive when a woman at a neighboring table looks over disapprovingly. So he barks at her. And at the waiter, and at the coat-check girl. Laughing, he barks all the way out onto the street...
...machines," he says. "But the Japanese are far more comfortable letting robots into their homes." For her part, Fionne seems pretty relaxed about the hyperkinetic puppy scuttling about her turf - even when Gibson begins flashing his angry red eyes. While Calkins whips a remote control out of his trench coat and frantically fingers the buttons, trying to appease his irate robot, Fionne yawns, stretches out and settles down...
Eventually she found her way to Oleg Cassini, a French-born Russian turned naturalized American and a onetime Hollywood costume designer. Cassini gave her Americanized versions of French designs, clean lined, in the bright, solid colors she preferred, but with oversize buttons and coat pockets that his Hollywood experience told him would stand out in photographs. She also patronized American clothiers who made licensed copies of French fashions. The red wool dress she wore for her television tour of the White House in 1962 was a line-for-line replica of a Marc Bohan dress for Dior. All the while...