Word: gilt
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...Elysée Palace, newsmen fairly gaped in astonishment. In one stroke, the salons where President Georges Pompidou does much of his entertaining had been transformed from pre-Bastille to post-Kubrick. Gone from the palace (built in 1718) were the murky frescoes, the gilt-edged mirrors, the priceless Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. The anteroom where guests are greeted is now a blast of color and light, designed by Israeli Op Artist Yaacov Agam and dominated by his wall-size "kinetic" murals...
...great North Atlantic steamships: can the $15 hardback leviathan survive in an age that buys its books from newsstands, reads them in an hour, and discards them like banana peels? The Sway of the Grand Saloon is huge, solid, stately, absurdly lavish, its noble dust jacket encrusted with gilt. Its whorled endpapers are the work of Niebelungian trolls who never see the sun. Its paper, far from being recycled, might be made by the supplier of Cunard table linen...
...golden-haired Cinderella grown up, a fairy-tale heiress to a legacy of ambition and success, a curiosity, a sex symbol. As did Jackie and Ethel in their time and turn, Joan Kennedy has become a public personality in her own right. On the gilt and antique gristmill that is the Washington cocktail circuit, she has been no less a source of speculation in recent months than Teddy himself. One day, she is a shy, self-styled homebody. The next, she is playing the piano on nationwide television, or shocking Washington with dresses cut down to there or slit...
Wealthy parent companies can afford to pay the bills. Helped by its highly profitable World Book Encyclopedia and a children's series called Childcraft, Field Enterprises earned about $7,000,000 last year despite the drain of the Daily News. The Tribune Co. is even richer. Among its gilt-edged properties are the New York Daily News,* a string of papers in Florida, and TV stations in Chicago, Denver and Duluth...
...involves 16,000 young people in Indianapolis, the nation's eleventh largest city. More than a third of the participants are poor, black or both, and when they learn sewing they sometimes discuss black history and make African-style dashikis. They may not know a shoat from a gilt, but they do know that when pork gets to a supermarket, sausage is cheaper per serving than spareribs...