Word: fetchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the faces of monsters in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye belongs more to tomorrow than today, as it has for the past half-century. Jackson Pollock is still a puzzle to many people, who appreciate only the fancy prices his paintings now fetch. That lack of understanding is what makes this eight-part BBC series on 20th century art so valuable: it does not tell us where we are going, but it does tell us where we have been...
Most of his drawings are in the possession of the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia; the few that come up for sale fetch prices of up to $12,000 each. For a man who describes himself as "a solitary and an agonizingly slow worker," Sendak has had an uncharacteristically gregarious year. He oversaw the printing of his new book, Outside Over There, to be published this spring, aided in the production of his off-Broadway musical Really Rosie, designed sets for the Houston Opera's version of The Magic Flute and is at work on the New York City Opera...
Firemen clambered up rescue ladders and began helping guests from windows and balconies. Since the ladders reached only as high as the ninth floor, dozens of other firemen headed up the stair wells to fetch guests from higher floors and lead them down to safety. But the most dramatic rescues were made by eleven helicopters, nine from nearby Nellis Air Force Base, that hovered over the roof, let down cables and lifted up hundreds of guests...
Today street vendors sell wares that on any given day may include French bicycles, Australian butter and Japanese beer-all at princely prices. A single can of root beer may fetch $6, a carton of cigarettes $140. The main source of the imports is an Air France flight that arrives every Friday from Bangkok with 45 tons of cargo. Vietnamese who live abroad but still have relatives back home send a steady stream of packages loaded with food, clothing or medicine that can be quickly sold on the black market...
...jumpsuit jamboree is powered by such top designers as Anne Klein, Calvin Klein, Halston, Ralph Lauren and Willi Smith. One of the fastest-selling lines, Reminiscence, is designed by Manhattan's award-winning Stewart Richer, 38, whose sporty suits in cotton and corduroy fetch from $60 to $72. "Boutiques are ordering them like they're $12 T shirts," says Richer. Jump buffs point out that they can be worn to the office with a turtleneck sweater and later accoutered for evening by removing the sweater, unzipping to the cleavage and adding jewelry. Like blue jeans, jumpsuits came...