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...softer version of socialism are everywhere. In the capital city of Vientiane (pop. 115,000), the organs of state power are evident enough, but their presence seems muted by crenellated temple roofs and reinvigorated marketplaces. In contrast to the oppressive presence of Communism in Hanoi, few propaganda banners festoon the streets, and soldiers in battle dress are rarely encountered. Buddhism flourishes: Marxist reservations notwithstanding, men still don the saffron robes of priesthood for a time and rise before dawn to walk through the morning mist in search of alms. Well-off Laotians may apply for exit visas and generally receive...
...postwar era, however, Erté's conceits were often dismissed as high camp or low kitsch. Undeterred, he kept on painting the Erté woman, who is the focus of most of his grand designs. Stylized, curvilinear and faintly kinky, she is identified by her festoon of jewels, trailing furs or crown of feathers. Often accompanying her, on a diamond-studded leash, is a borzoi or a leopard...
...admitted that he was "favorably disposed" to Algeria's offer to serve as mediator between the two warring nations. He also suggested that the truce should become effective in early September, coinciding with the summit of non-aligned nations scheduled to take place in Baghdad. Bright banners already festoon the Iraqi capital, bearing the words WELCOME TO OUR DISTINGUISHED VISITORS in English, French and Arabic. For years Saddam Hussein has envisioned the summit as a grandiose occasion to mark Iraq's emergence as a leading force in the non-aligned movement...
From 1734 to 1805, Naples and its provinces were ruled by a series of princelings, whose watery blue eyes and pendulous underlips festoon every wall in this show: the Bourbons, offshoots of the reigning French and Spanish royal families. They controlled a great capital: with 400,000 people, Naples was the largest city in Italy and, after London and Paris, the third largest in Europe. Its need for conspicuous display and luxury kept architects and builders in constant work. A few of them, like the artists Corrado Giaquinto (1703-66) and Francesco Solimena (1657-1747), or the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice...
...Situation Room is in the basement of the West Wing of the White House. The low ceiling, dark walls and functional appointments give it the charm of a courthouse conference room. Machines clack away. Top Secret signs festoon the forbidding steel cabinets. Elaborate locks guard the doors and windows. The man who presides over this scene, Richard Allen, is something of an enigma himself. His public image is overshadowed by those of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who preceded him as National Security Adviser. They resided upstairs in grander style and dominated foreign policy. Allen has shrunk the adviser...