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Endangered Species. At Dior and most other houses this year, the fur flew freely. Bohan's coats have collars of red or silver fox; raincoats are lined and hooded in mink and moleskin; his anoraks are lined in seal or fox; sheer jackets are bordered in matching ostrich plumes. But if Bohan's clothes hurt the purse, they should not distress the conscience. Said a program footnote: "Christian Dior Fourrure hereby declares that none of the furs shown in the collection are on the endangered list of the World Wild Life Fund." Indeed, if their prices keep rising...
...some birds mating near it, he explains--and once the main road is clear, he hauls it down to the van, holding it before him by its rack, like the handlebars of a bike. The eyeballs have fallen out of their sockets, but the head is still covered with fur, and is brown and runny inside, 6-10 and Fred put it into two plastic garbage bags...
...started out wearing gaudily studded and mirrored jumpsuits, soon graduated to feather boas, fur shoulderettes, a top hat surprounted by a magnificent ostrich plume by now these too have become routine costumes...
...coins minted in 1967, right after he came to power, he's depcited in an army uniform with rows of medals on his chest and a mean look on his face under his black glasses. Coins from 1969 show him in a business suit. In 1972 an African fur hat is added to the suit. The latest 1974 coins have him wearing a daishiki and fur hat--the only still recognizable feature is the black glasses, as thick as ever...
...works eight or nine hours a day on Volume III of his Metamorphoses of the Gods, and spends his rare moments of rest strolling through his elegant garden in Verrieres-le-Buisson with his two cats, named Fourrure (fur) and Essuie-plume (penwiper). Still French Polymath Andre Malraux, 73, took time out to visit the Louvre for a television tribute to Michelangelo in honor of the 500th anniversary of the artist's birth. "Michelangelo invented the hero type. It had not existed before him, and he certainly did not discover it in antiquity, where it does not exist either...