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...concentration on massive, brilliantly cut diamonds, which followed the opening up of the African diamond fields. Seeking color and form rather than carats, jewelers reintroduced the beauty of semiprecious stones, particularly the shimmering opal, and outdid one another with bizarre settings. In place of the perfect jewel, the flawed gem was exploited, the odd-shaped pearl stressed for its singularity and enamels and glass were often preferred to gold. It took courage to wear these creations; it took, in fact, a new kind of woman. The intrepid Sarah Bernhardt, with her loose-flowing hair and cameo beauty, filled the bill...
...Years on the Bottle. Glick's telephone call-in program is just one of dozens that are proliferating across the U.S., giving the platter parades and baseball broadcasts a run for the ratings. Glick, 43, now with his eighth radio station since 1953, has become a glib, gemütlich master of the new formula. All he has to defend himself against his telephone callers is a tape-delay device, which gives him a four-second time lag in which to erase obscenities from the air. To ease the strain, there is an occasional celebrity visitor such as Songstress...
...ever-ready air of a lass who welcomes surprise, Kim is pinched, pursued, manhandled, and upended at regular intervals. She excels in barroom brawls and petticoat larceny: popping a gentleman's ring onto her tongue, she kisses him until he has to surface, then drops the gem into her decolletage...
...turns to sympathy, as Gradwell recognizes his kinship with this other outsider: "He broke off a piece of bread and threw it, saying in his own language to the dog, 'Here!' " Miss Gordimer's detachment competes with her lapidarian skill. Her stories glow, but with the gem fire that gives no warmth and sheds only reflected light...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Billy Wilder's 1959 gem Some Like It Hot, with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as members of an all-girl band...