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Despite the decor-rows of balloons and cupids cut from red paper-the meeting more nearly suggested a religious service than the first annual convention of Neurotics Anonymous. All of the 250 delegates gathered in the ballroom of Los Angeles' Royal Palms Hotel were confessed neurotics. But to most the designation was a source of pride, not humiliation. When a man in his 20s -one of the few young delegates-rose to report that he had found God again through N.A., his announcement was greeted calmly; after all, nearly everyone there could say the same...
...then as you're standing there shaking the snow off your second step into the all-new Western Front, you begin to marvel at the fantastic new decor they've got going at this place, and you decide that the Western Front is just something else...
...British supertub is called the "Sagittarius Double Bath" and costs about $750. It was conceived two years ago, by British Interior Decorator Godfrey Bonsack, merely as an oversized one-man tub. "I'm short and fat," explains Bonsack, "and I wanted a raised step on one end for soaping, and then to be able to turn around and stretch out from the other end for soaking. But then, I thought, the four-foot width was just right; wouldn't it be fun if two people used it together?" Yes, indeed, agreed the several hundred customers who have already...
...only director really dealing with human intelligence, Lang consructed for Mabuse deep sets whose fantastic decor reveals the imaginations of the characters. The Countess's extremely broad and deep rooms are filled with African masks and huge primitive statues which she wonderfully explains in the words, "My brother is a cubist." We immediately sense a world, not exactly that of the early twenties on the Continent, but informed with the essence of that time. The mood current among the rich, joining malaise to brilliant cultivation, typifies a dying upper class that feels no threat in extinction. Their easy lives...
...Crimson is the deep almost physical attachment most Crimeds have for the building at 14 Plympton Street, for the other people who help put the paper out, and for the integrity of the paper. The attachment is not less amazing if you consider the less than elegant decor of the building, the often bizarrely heterogeneous natures of the dozens of students who make up the Crimson, and the inescapable hard work that goes into...