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...buyers' favorites were Givenchy's high bustline, soft-shouldered dresses and Balenciaga's short shrug jackets. A hemstitch away in popularity: Yves St. Laurent's "cowboy look" (sombreros, neckerchiefs), and Marc Bohan's Dior evening gowns that plunge front and back. Copies, adaptations and custom reproductions will be ready in U.S. shops this month...
Taking, as is our custom, the generous view, we would say that the movies in town this week are all as good as they can be. In most cases, we would add, with out customary solicitude for the truth, that, with one exception, this is not very. For example, at the Brattle (TR 6-4226), Queen of Spades,though lavishly photographed, is only as good as a not-so-hot Tchaikovsky opera can be; at the Exeter (KE 6-7067), Robert Dhery plums not very tantalizing depths in a movie which is as good as a movie about...
...indeed a tragic life. More tragic is the age-old custom of appreciating artists only after their death...
Wending his nomadic way home from the U.S. via Spain, Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 60, descended on Malaga in his Boeing 720 and took over the sumptuous Castillo Santa Catalina. His fortnight's rental (including a bed custom-made to his outsized dimensions) came to $10,000, but after two days, Saud restlessly roared off to Torremolinos. Although His Majesty had neglected to pay the bill, the Castillo's proprietors remained unruffled. Saud, it was understood, had arrived in Spain with a $340,000 bank draft and -for walking-around money-traveler's checks totaling...
Next day, when Saudi Arabia's King Saud came to call on the President, Jackie Kennedy went into 24 hours of voluntary purdah. In deference to Arab custom, women were omitted from the official White House dinner for the King. Jackie flew off to Manhattan with her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill (for undisclosed reasons). That night, after the Saud dinner, Jack Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson betook themselves to a party given by the President's sister, Eunice Shriver. J.F.K. was dancing when the orchestra began a twist, but kept on sedately fox-trotting...