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Once settled, foreigners are elated by American entertaining styles. Italian-Brazilian Count Rudi Crespi, a Manhattan-based publicist for a number of Italian fashion houses, finds his evenings less predictable. "In Italy the host will call you three days in advance and tell you who your companions are going to be. In New York you run into interesting people, pick up ideas and get into lively discussions. If I wanted a programmed evening, I'd stay home and watch...
...pounds, the senior forward looks like he'd be more at home on a football field. In fact, he was a star in both sports and baseball at Crespi Carmelite High School in Los Angeles...
...Since the beginning of last year, there have been 90 kidnapings, with ransoms of $1 million or more being paid on at least two occasions. The flamboyance of the moneyed life-style has all but disappeared. So have a good many of the rich. Said U.S.-born Countess Consuelo Crespi before moving to New York City in 1976: "In Italy now you want to feel rich and look poor." Sales of Rolls-Royces have fallen off to nearly half their level of a year ago. The miles of nightclub neon that used to light up the Roman nights have dimmed...
...candlelight dinner. It has drifted in from the gold mines and cattle ranges of the Old West, from the wharves, barracks and boiler rooms of today, carrying a look as cleanly functional as sled or scythe. It is fluid, soft, supple, slithery, sexy and unstuffy. Says Consuelo Crespi, editor of Italian Vogue...
...then, as she explains, "glamour can begin only when all the groundwork has been laid." For Luciana, the groundwork came early in adolescence, when "all legs and big feet, thick at the waist and thick in the nose," she was taken in hand by her half brother, Rodolfo Crespi (married to Consuelo Crespi of the best-dressed set). Rudi pushed lipstick, Consuelo set aside some best dresses, and at 18, Luciana was shuttled from Rome to London to have her nose fixed (the working model was a cross between Vivien Leigh's and Consuelo's). Six months later...