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They prefer concerts and auctions to canasta and golf, are likely to spend the time their mothers relegated to ladies' luncheons to tracking down a Directoire commode for the foyer, just the right bronze for the living-room mantle. If not elaborately educated in the mechanics of cooking, the New Elegants are nonetheless possessed of a sophisticated palate favoring simple Continental cuisine-everything light in body and definite in flavor, including the wines...
...desk sits a tiny Daumier bronze of a humble country bumpkin. He also wants his employees to appreciate art, gives them plenty to look at. Rarely have they failed to enjoy it, but once he had to take down a Leger tapestry of a mechanical man in the office foyer. Employees read themselves uncomfortably into the image...
Beyond the foyer, the walls are a virtual tapestry of contemporary art; the furniture, mostly antique except for braces of modern Mies and Eames chairs, cowers in the center of the rooms to make place for paintings. Even Scull's eldest son, Jonathan, 15, covers the walls of his room with his own collection of junior-sized examples of Pop that he buys by installments with his allowance. The apartment is so cluttered with art derived from familiar objects that frequently guests pick up an ordinary cigarette box and ask who the artist...
...discovers that it includes a lavish dinner for two and many bottles of champagne. Hooked, he sticks around and pays and pays as the girl, already tanked up, orders more champagne, a purseful of cigarettes and a corsage. When he takes her home, she passes out in the foyer. He lugs his hefty pickup up and down stairs and in and out of an antique glass-walled elevator in a frantic attempt to find her apartment so he can unload her. When he finally gets rid of her and back on the street, he is missing a shoe, goes hippety...
...inside the tents. Others dozed on cots or chatted idly with their colleagues, trying to beat the summer heat with bottles of cold beer, which they bring to tento mura by the case. When word was flashed by walkie-talkie radio from the agent inside the P.M.'s foyer, the press corps rushed out to extract the news from Ikeda's latest visitor...