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...SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. The author again mines the stuff that dreams are made of: this one about the richest, handsomest, most irresistible American-who is, of course, also an accomplished necrophiliac with great taste in tombs...
...island of Maui, half an hour by plane from Honolulu, which connoisseurs consider the handsomest of the lot. The Hana-Maui Hotel is so revered an institution that some of its affluent guests (like Faithful Vacationer Marshall Field Jr.) arrange to skip Honolulu completely, fly by private plane directly in and out of Maui. Just within the past six months, a first-class championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones has opened, flanked by two new luxury resorts. One is the Royal Lahaina. a 32-cottage settlement and semiprivate club. The new Sheraton-Maui is less expensive but more...
...worth of unrepatriated pesetas to erect a fullscale replica of Peking in the plains of Spain, to populate it with 6,500 assorted movie stars, Spaniards and Chinese extras, and to blow the whole thing up at the end. Pictorially, the film is magnificent, and some of the handsomest scenes-an orange sun rising over the peaks of the Forbidden City, midnight pyrotechnics as the Imperial arsenal blows up, the gates of the great Tartar Wall being stormed by Boxers in scarlet turbans-are almost as good as the evocative paintings by Water-colorist Dong Kingman, which open and close...
...blousy sleeve, hardly anything was really brand-new. There we're flowers on everything-Balmain cinched the waist of an evening gown with green satin leaves. Saint-Laurent flung lilies of the valley onto everything from formals to hats. The results, while not revolutionary, were some of the handsomest clothes in years...
...also have served as a reminder of her early career as a leader of a Nazi studentbund and a wartime favorite of Nazi audiences. But if she had qualms about her Parisian reception, they were dispelled. Untranslated and long since forgiven for her past, she scored one of her handsomest triumphs...