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...plays with sunset shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic dress and functional wear. Diana Vreeland, who in her years as a fashion doyen coined a neat line about Indian dress ("Pink is the navy blue of India"), started to organize this show more than a year and a half ago, and her trademarks are abundant. There are atmospheric tapes of Indian court music, elaborate furniture, and the scent of a specially made Guerlain...
...choicest commissions, including an addition to the Tate Gallery in London and a science center in the monumental heart of West Berlin. He is the subject of a lavish catalog with commentary, to be published next month, titled James Stirling: Buildings and Projects (Rizzoli; $45). Philip Johnson, the doyen of his profession, has endorsed Stirling as a longtime wunderkind who is now "a mature leader of world architecture...
Zapp is not alone in desiring this prize; he and other contenders keep meeting at academic conferences and trying to upstage one another. The man they must impress is Arthur Kingfisher, "doyen of the international community of literary theorists," whose approval will bring the award. Unfortunately, the Fisher King is filled with despair "at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought...
...third Pulitzer Prize, and sped him on to a Nobel in 1936. And still the jesters japed. Critic Alexander Woollcott, noting that one of the central characters was a gentleman of indeterminate sexual appetites, called Strange Interlude "a play in nine scenes and an epicene." Alfred Lunt, the doyen of Broadway actors, described it as "a six-day bisexual race." Lunt's wife Lynn Fontanne, who starred in the show, said of her nightly marathon: "This is like giving birth--it isn't worth...
...doyen of professional translators, Ralph Manheim, 77, has lived in Paris for 34 years, secure in his grip on the English language, working with equal fluency from the French and the German. In the tiny maid's room that serves as his office, near the Luxembourg Gardens, Manheim has produced inventive English versions of some of Europe's most difficult writers, including Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Günter Grass. Manheim's most recent endeavor: a canny rendering of The Weight of the World, an elliptical memoir by Austrian Playwright Peter Handke...