Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banks, art galleries, hotels, couturiers, fur and perfume concerns all shared in the gift. "When TIME and LIFE moved to our famous quarter of Paris," said Gallery Owner Hervé Odermatt in his presentation, "we here today were proud to become your neighbors. We come here tonight as friends to tell you that we share your mourning and your grief...
Fabrics, as well as colors, are on the wild side. Fur for rugs, pillows and even bedspreads is increasingly popular. For Vogue Publisher S. I. Newhouse Jr., Manhattan Decorator Billy Baldwin not only covered the hassocks with suede but even turned a pack of scavenging jackals into a luxurious rug. Busy patterns, thinks Bloomingdale's Interior Design Chief David Bell, will be increasingly used to make small apartment rooms appear bigger through trompe-l'oeil. At the moment, the most popular style of furniture, at least in the mass market, is Early American, but a change...
...otter is coming back on the market. Under protection the herds have multiplied to a present population of some 40,000-enough so that Alaska has begun harvesting a strictly controlled number of pelts. Last week more than 100 buyers representing the world's top fur houses converged on the Seattle Fur Exchange to compete for Alaska's initial harvest. In less than two hours of bidding, Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who revived the trade as a state-owned enterprise, presided over the sale of 826 skins. The record-breaking top price: $2,300 per skin, paid...
...particular-Monologue of a Blue Fox on an Alaskan Animal Farm-seems an especially bold statement of the rebel's own schizoid loyalties. The fox shrills for freedom from its cage, where it is held because of the value of its fur. Then it discovers that the door to its pen has been left open, only to make a further horrible discovery...
...throughout the concert was of the sickly sort one expects from a band but which the HUB usually avoids. In the first half, it was all the Band could do to get through the notes, let alone do anything with them. This was particularly noticeable in the Hindemith Konzertmusik fur Blasorchester, the most massive and probably the most difficult work on the program. There are always a lot of notes in Hindemith and the Band's performance exposed serious problems of ensemble. Walker was often reduced to signalling huge downbeats in an effort to get his musicians together again. Problems...