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...Haute decadence" is my opinion of Cornelia Guest and her debut as a rock performer [Jan. 10]. It is tragic that again it is "fashionable to flaunt the traditional, frivolous perquisites of wealth and class...
Warnecke, based in San Francisco, had won national acclaim for his ability to design buildings that do not flaunt their modernity but get along well with older neighbors, notably two office buildings opposite the White House whose brick facades effectively echo the residential accents of surrounding Lafayette Square...
...learned enough, anyway, to understand that her debutante splash would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. But these days it is once again fashionable to flaunt the traditional, frivolous perquisites of wealth and class. Fortunately for Cornelia, the Zeitgeist turned conservative just as she came of age. "Debutantes ..." she sighs. "It's a wonderful tradition. I'm glad it's coming back more and more now, not Like in the '60s." Cornelia was born on Thanksgiving Day 1963, six days after President Kennedy was killed. "During the '60s, there were all those revolutions...
...Swidnik residents disrupted plans for a local May Day parade by announcing that they were going to show up barefoot. Many Poles with a flair for the dramatic still dress in black, or at least wear a black ribbon, as a sign of national mourning over freedom lost. Others flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show they have not lost their sense of black humor, still others express resistance to martial law by quite literally wearing a resistor, a tiny radio part, as an ornament...
...account, and together the Lawrence-Wells team did playful, expensive things to Braniffs airplanes, like painting them in seven shimmering pastel colors and paying Artist Alexander Calder $100,000 for his design ideas. Braniffs stewardesses were decked out in Pucci-styled uniforms. "When you've got it, flaunt it" was the proud slogan in the late 1960s...