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Clarke's technique is similar to Andy Warhol's photographic silk-screen caricatures in that it is based on elementary colors laid one atop another. But unlike Warhol, Clarke actually seems tp like colors that harmonize, and he keeps them in tune. The silky gown of Charpentier's Mile. Charlotte is reduced to four shades of grey, but they balance precisely. Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People becomes a tatterdemalion tapestry of rich reds, browns, rusts and golds, a country mile closer to paisley than pop. Clarke's new old masters are selling fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: New Old Masters | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...weekend in the sun. He was there from the instant they entered Nassau customs, smoothing the way and shepherding them into the black and white Cadillac limousines. For entertainment, he arranged an "informal" dinner the first night, which all but a handful of ladies knew meant come in a gown, followed the next night by a black-tie ball (Meyer Davis music) and fashion show, with Marquis Emilio Pucci and Oscar de La Renta present to show their styles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: The Shepherd & His Lambs | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...after the premiere in Manhattan of Husband Anthony Newley's latest picture, Doctor Dolittle (see CINEMA). She was right, of course: not everyone was at the premiere. But those who were there -plus everyone watching the TV coverage of the event-saw Joan erupting from a Castillo Paris gown that was the dressmaker's equivalent of the Marianas Trench. Far from courting publicity, Joan said, she was just seeking comfort-and "most clothes these days are so rigidly constructed you feel as if you were put together, not dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1967 | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...Colonial, probably the most progressive of the top five clubs (others are Cottage, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and Tiger), members decided to keep Bicker this year in a close vote. Bicker won last month, 42-36, but 13 club members resigned before the crucial ballot over a complicated "moral" issue. They would have swung...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Princeton Revisited: Clubs Are Changing | 12/12/1967 | See Source »

...close eye on the white roses that will fill the basket. Calligraphers, their labors done, studied their handiwork on 500 invitations and "carriage cards" (for parking assignments). While aides carefully clocked the whole ceremony in advance, Lynda Bird John son underwent final fittings of the white faille wedding gown created for her by Mod Couturier Geoffrey Beene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Able Bess's Spectacular | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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