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Designer Diane von Furstenberg offered a roll of paper towels imprinted with 250 lipstick kisses. Giorgio di Sant' Angela sent a 9-ft. hand-painted silk banner worth (he said) $20,000. The occasion: a "Fashion as Fantasy" exhibit held in Manhattan to raise money for Fountain House, a New York psychiatric rehabilitation center. Five hundred guests paid $50 each to attend. Topless Swimsuit Creator Rudi Gernreich offered two models decked out in bicycle parts. "In a machine age, people are drawn to machinery," explained Rudi, "and it is sensuous and sexy." Chacun a son gout...
...Special Section are brothers under the skin: every one of them, regardless of political persuasion, is a resounding stereotype. There are no real characters, only cameos enacted by a large cast of mostly unfamiliar actors. The judges are straw men in scarlet robes, passing out death sentences like souvenir fountain pens. Their victims are a rag-tag gallery of the common man meant to embody some evergreen liberal shibboleths: the fiery left-wing journalist; the good-humored, faintly ironic petty crook; the humble shopkeeper...
...sine qua non his humiliation? Director George Hamlin has taken a wise hint from Walter Kaiser and ended the play, not with the happy sight of lusty couples marching off to bed, but on a note of melancholy. Silhouetted against a night sky, Antonio wordlessly stares into a fountain, suggesting that the solutions on the play's surface are far from final...
...overwhelmed by the beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...
Murder Instrument. Church called the pistol "a murder instrument that's about as efficient as you can get." The agency has also developed two other dart-launching pistols, as well as a fountain pen that can fire deadly darts and an automobile engine-head bolt that releases a toxic substance when heated...