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...Paris haute couture house, the decor is outright iconoclastic. Instead of the usual hushed beige backdrops, little gilt chairs and artfully placed mirrors, rich oranges and reds glow on every side. The black border motif on the rugs and walls summons up visions of black flames. Bright pink branches thrust upward from behind small neo-Martian chairs, and the sconces are big burnished theater masks, enough to scare a timid millionairess right out of her chiffon...
...with the random acts of zealots like the Lollards. They were enraged by the apparent contradiction between the Second Commandment ("Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image") and the "idolatrous" cult of statues of the Holy Family and the saints set up in English churches, jeweled and gilt and encrusted with innumerable votive offerings. The church's answer was that you did not worship the image itself; you worshiped the Virgin through her image -- a nice point apt to be lost on rustic fundamentalists...
...ceiling on my left and right was a staggered tier of oak shelves, randomly crowded with shoes. Two clues that it wasn't Kinney's: the shoes, chunked with ice and vaguely steaming socky odor, were obviously not for sale; plus, the oak door, creaking shut behind me, was gilt with the words "International Society for Krishna Consciousness...
...Room used the cover of international travel and scientific expeditions to gather information that it passed on to Washington and London. The Room's membership list read like the Social Register: Vincent Astor, Kermit Roosevelt, David Bruce (Andrew Mellon's son-in-law), Nelson Doubleday and a gilt edging of Wall Streeters and lawyers...
This season's most promising performer is a spotted tan gilt named Huckleberry Hog, who has a good shot at breaking the record: 4.48 sec. on the flat, held by a gilt named American Made. But even if she sizzles to a new speed record and is enshrined in Heinold's hog hall of fame, poor Huck's fate is already sealed. After a brief breeding reprieve -- to produce not racers but simply high-quality piglets -- she gets a one-way ticket to the abattoir, along with all this year's other stars. Says Holding, who plans to retire from...