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Fashion buyers and critics have not yet figured out what to make of it all. Geraldine Stutz, president of Manhattan's Henri Bendel, shakes her head and says: "We're not ready for this." Gina Fratini, a London designer who turned out high-priced miniskirts in the '60s, concedes this time around: "It's unreal. Lots of people can't wear minis." Bernard Ozer of Associated Merchandising Corp. of New York insists: "At most, it will appeal to trendy young girls going to discotheques. No woman is willing these days to convert a wardrobe from...
...Died. Gina Bachauer, 63, piano virtuoso whose powerful romanticism won her international acclaim; of a heart attack; shortly before a performance in her native Athens. A student of Sergei Rachmaninoff's, Bachauer found her budding career postponed by World War II. She abandoned concert halls for military outposts, giving more than 600 recitals of classics and boogie-woogie for Allied troops in the Middle East. A commanding woman in appearance as well as technique, Bachauer made her U.S. debut in 1950, drawing only 35 listeners. Critics, however, were quick to praise her spirited interpretations of a wide variety...
...management field. Last May, shortly after he was fired as Hurok's president, Gold announced the formation of his own firm, ICM Artists Ltd. Since then, the agency has signed up such onetime Hurok clients as Violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman; Pianists Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gina Bachauer and Daniel Barenboim; Cellist Leonard Rose; Conductors Erich Leinsdorf and Julius Rudel; and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Zukerman switched, he explained, because "Shelly Gold is more than a manager to me. He's a close friend. I get a lot from Shelly, a lot more than the 20%." Added Stern...
...Peter Riegert) and the girl (Jane Anderson) have each been involved in cozily domestic relationships with homosexual roommates. Their chance to go straight, as it were, is blighted by the cruel disparagement of the new lovers by their former partners (F. Murray Abraham and Gina Rogers...
...bestsellers from Paris and Rome (not to mention Asterix, the whimsical French comic-book series, translated into Italian). The Italians also believe they have upgraded the avenue itself. "Two or three years ago, Fifth Avenue was in danger of being taken over by the banks and airline offices," says Gina di Martini of Di Camerino. "It was saved by the bold Italians." The Fifth Avenue Association, which represents all the avenue's fashionable merchants, agrees. It declared a special Italian Week last month, complete with flags, window displays and a proclamation by Mayor Abraham Beame...