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tour, she deigned to put in a personal appearance at only one department store. The same store was one of the first in the U.S. to introduce men's Carnaby Street fashions. It has also brought in Simon & Garfunkel, Dionne Warwick, and Spanky and Our Gang to entertain shoppers. Among art fanciers, it is known and respected for its Gallery 12, which sells Tom Wesselmann nudes as well as $8,000 Marisol wood sculptures. The store is Dayton's of Minneapolis, which has exhibited a flair for showmanship that has been emulated by some of the biggest names...
...Pompidous entertain frequently, both at large receptions at the Matignon and at dinner parties for twelve in their apartment, where Pompidou holds forth on everything from his favorite nouvelle vague film director (Jean-Luc Godard) to his favorite poet (Baudelaire, whose work he never reads "without emotion"). In fact, Pompidou ranks somewhere among the literati himself, having begun work on two novels ("It would be entertaining to be a writer") and edited a widely used anthology of French poetry...
...these paltry times of inconspicuous consumption, when the rich no longer recognize their obligation to entertain the poor by erecting Rhenish castles and commissioning steam yachts, a book such as this guide to posh deserves the Jay Gould Award for Public Service. It is already a bestseller-which gives Stephen Birmingham, author of Our Crowd, the distinction of having two books on the Big List simultaneously. The dust jacket of The Right People describes it as "an important, authoritative work of serious social comment." Fortunately, this is nonsense. The Right People is malicious storytelling, leavened by gossip, and puts...
...airports while they go someplace else to shop. Some airports, to keep kids in hand, have opened amusement arcades, kiddy rides and souvenir shops, which turn many a city's aerial gateway into a carnival. Says one airport executive: "Where you don't hate something to entertain the kids they write all over the walls. You do it as a defensive measure...
...followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention. To his family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed. His meticulously cultivated public image remains that of the sort of magician often hired to entertain at children's birthday parties-a milk-and-cookies Mandrake complete with slick hair and slim mustache...