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Snagged & Blinded. CaterineMilinaire wears a mirror-top dress; Charlotte Ford was last seen wearing silver-embroidered ivory lace with matching boots. Chicago Socialite Fay Peck owns at least a dozen pairs of Christmas-tree-ball earrings, plus three short glitter dresses, which, she says, "I haven't taken off since the time I bought them." To the San Francisco Opera Guild's annual Fol de Rol ball, Nancy Adler, the conductor's wife, came in a silver and white plaid dress, and Pia Lindstrom (now a local TV hostess) wore a silver brocade pants suit. Three...
...international affairs. Its industrial output jumped by more than 7% in the year that ended last June, and both this year and next year its gross national product is expected to increase 5.5%, highest real growth rate in the Common Market. Yet under the surface glitter, France has a backward, underdeveloped economy-a fact that the De Gaulle government has recently owned up to and started to do something about...
...spectacle combines the glitter and grace of an ice show, the hell-for-leather horsemanship of a rodeo, the martial pageantry of a Veterans Day parade, and the breath-stopping violence of the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The men are ruggedly masculine, and the girls are worth bringing binoculars...
Though SHAPE'S officers may groan at the thought of swapping Paris' glitter for bucolic Belgium, locals around Casteau consider the choice a stroke of luck. Real estate prices have doubled, and rents are sure to follow. Besides, many of the residents share a SHAPE passion: "I'm looking forward to the Americans," says one Casteau golfer. "We need some competition...
...provided an environment in which not only can the art of opera flourish but opera's mystique as well. Neither really modern nor really traditional, neither daring nor conservative, the house spills over with the wealth and the glitter and the grand irrationalities of myth and legend that together form the compelling unreality of opera itself, a dream world of the Theater of the Surd...