Word: crepes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunny, transparent Quartet in D for Flute and Strings to the late Irving Fine's romantic and unsettling Fantasia for String Trio (1957). Most fetching of the four contemporary works is Elliott Carter's Woodwind Quintet, with its light melodic fragments breezily tossed and tangled like crepe-paper streamers...
...combination of hard and soft surprises. Hard (far-out) surprises in the March issue, out next week, include Ferrari-inspired shoes that are red, black, green and yellow, and have wheels and a red "2" painted on their sides. Also hard: a "prancesuit" made up of a melon crepe tunic and thigh-tight knee pants with blue crystal trim and blue shoes to match. The soft(expectable) surprise comes in the form of Paris spring fashions, from Dior's white hunting jacket to St. Laurent's daytime version of "le smoking...
...such scruples for Christina Paolozzi Bellin, who made a great Doll Tearsheet in black and white crepe with a diaphanous midriff designed by John Kloss. She kept wishing she were nuder. "You can't even tell I'm naked," wailed the girl who made her fame by being scratched from the Social Register four years ago for posing nude from the waist up in Harper's Bazaar. And how did Christina feel about representing Shakespeare's most notorious trollop? "It's fun to play a character you'd be least likely...
...thought, Bojarsky set to work reading books about papermaking, visiting pulp factories on guided tours. Then, using a combination of rain water, cigarette paper and other wood fibers, he mixed his first batch of pulp in a secondhand bidet. Helas! The first sheet that he pressed looked "like a crepe suzette." Bojarsky persevered, made his first contribution to the wealth of society by passing one of his homemade franc notes in return for his Christmas chicken...
...wonder if Letter Writer George W. Cooley, commenting on Barbra Streisand [Feb. 18], realizes that a crepe suzette is nothing more than a degenerate blintz...