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...time; in Algiers, La., less than an hour after Hirt's previous marriage of 33 years ended in divorce. Hirt is almost as famous for his heft (over 250 lbs. at the last weigh-in) as for his high-volume horn. His hits include such brassy tunes as Java, Cotton Candy and Fly Me to the Moon, which was piped into outer space in 1965 to help the Gemini 7 astronauts relax...
This is by no means the first appearance of a Chinese look. Nor is the look exclusively Chinese; the fashion embraces ideas and accents from almost anywhere east of Suez. Designer McFadden's opulent coats are batiked and hand-painted in Java, and other items in her collection speak variously of Japan, Mongolia and the Middle East. The style, says another American designer, Jonathan Hitchcock, "includes anything Eastern-Tibetan, Persian, Indian. It is a much more primitive way of making clothes-simple and functional yet sophisticated." And versatile. Fashions like Hitchcock's side-wrapped, hip-length "Tibetan" jacket...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts is showing a selection of batiks from Java as a companion exhibit to the Fogg's Balinese show...
...McLuhan Effect: While the socalled "Gutenberg Man" (he of the printed page) has not yet followed the Java Man to extinction, his demise appears well on the way. Edmund Burke's famous query, "Who now reads Bolingbroke?" can today be shortened to "Who reads...
...Angeles to New York. Patty and Maxene, costumed in a sort of WAC usherette motif, are lovably running the train's U.S.O. canteen. The 40s collage includes precautionary Army VD lectures, Glenn Miller band impersonations, little jokes about "going all the way," period slang ("cow juice and Java") and a likable fantasy of America's postwar dreams-Esther Williams bathing beauties backstroking across the dry stage...