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...blue glass (see color). By the 16th century, turning from enamel, glass blowers were getting their effect from glass alone, embedding canes of opaque white glass to form latticelike patterns, or trapping pockets of air between the rods of glass to make Venice's famed vetro di trina (lace glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: VENICE'S GREAT AGE OF GLASS | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...start by banning importation of a few luxury items to Patagonia. Last week customs announced the arrest of three leaders of one car-smuggling ring. But in Puerto Madryn the steamer went on unloading the jewelry, 5,000 cases of whisky, 1,000 cases of rum, bales of Brussels lace, crates of fireworks. As every Patagonian knew, such choice merchandise was not going to the goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Not for Goats | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Parity Waste. In Tokyo, Theater Manager Ryohei Tanaka sent 1,200 pairs of black lace panties to Tokyo cabaret girls, offered them free tickets to the movie Don't Go Near the Water if they showed up wearing the garments, ruefully hired a fashion model to salvage his misfired publicity stunt when not one girl showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...resembles a bass saxophone wrapped in a lace nightie? See Music, The New Canaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

CAROL STEVENS is a deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Canaries | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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