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...recent cartoon in the Rumanian Communist Party newspaper Scinteia pictured a chubby bon vivant in a homburg slouched in the back seat of a limousine driven by his uniformed chauffeur. The paper's lampoon was propaganda, all right, but this time it was not aimed at the usual effigy of a capitalist boss. Its target was the Communist Party's own fat cats. In Rumania, as in the rest of Eastern Europe these days, the party is working hard to eradicate one of the biggest and most abused privileges perpetuated by Communism's affluent new class...
...collector's favorite. Tadeusz' teacher, Joseph Beuys, is also out of the ordinary. A onetime Hitler Youth and World War II Stuka pilot, Beuys has undergone a characteristic postwar metamorphosis to become Düsseldorfs reigning neo-Dada hero. He is celebrated for his Chaplinesque smile, battered Homburg, octopuslike drawings, sculptures made of chocolate and lard, for the splendiferous happenings that he used to stage and, above all, for the fertile chaos of his classrooms. Students in a Beuys class are permitted to build, sculpt or paint literally anything, from kinetic doodads to studies of Beuys himself...
...Irish truck driver's son who bubbled up through the Labor Party's ranks to the No. 2 spot like the suds on a pint of warm stout, Brown has been defying the staid frock-coat-and-homburg image of a diplomat ever since he arrived at Whitehall four months ago for his first day of work. While senior foreign officers ceremoniously gathered out front to greet the new man, Brown slipped in the back door and went to work. In what the Daily Mail has called "the hundred hair-raising days" since, Brown has gone about...
...Chanel showing it is de rigueur for spectators to wear their own little Chanel suits out of loyalty to Coco. But no one told Barbra; she swept in to take her place beside Marlene Dietrich and Elsa Martinelli in a jaguar-skin suit and Homburg that had even the models gawking. How did she like the show? "Those girls at Cardin's," said the girl from Brooklyn, "they didn't have a thing under their dresses. I was embarrassed." And Paris haul couture? Barbra politely demurred: "Nice, but not for me." Privately, she declared: "It stinks...
...international stock and to make himself more visible; his father, after all, is now 77. Invited by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Chiang and his entourage were greeted by an honor guard and a 19-gun salute. Then the lean, bareheaded American and the short, stocky Chinese with the Homburg disappeared for a series of conferences. Just before leaving Taipei, Chiang had declared that "a final and decisive war between Communist and Nationalist Chinese forces is inevitable," but he was much more restrained in Washington. His and McNamara's joint communiqué said simply that they had discussed the Asian...