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Congress could have avoided the sorry spectacle by following its own budget process. But by the time the lawmakers adjourned in October, they had passed only three of 13 appropriation bills needed to keep the Government running. Like lame ducks with their heads cut off, the members were able to approve only a few more funding bills during the special session and were forced to lump all other appropriations into a catchall continuing resolution that provides temporary funds for everything from missiles to Medicaid...
...when Erté made an electrifying appearance at the Paris Opera costume ball, he was dressed in a toreador outfit of varying shades of gold lame. "That night," he recalls, "the huge cape I designed was completely lined with fresh red roses which I tossed, one by one, at my audience as I descended the grand staircase." Though the glitter of the gold fabric has dimmed a trifle, and Erte has just turned 90, both the costume and the celebrated designer were on hand at the opening of a retrospective at the Dyansen Gallery in Manhattan, one of four major...
Reminiscing about the sumptuousness of the decors he designed on visits to the U.S. in the '20s, Erte recalls that one set for the Ziegfeld Follies was built with 6½ miles of gold lame, specially ordered from France. Still, Erté's work did more than coruscate. At the other end of the spectrum of his sensibility are the exquisite gouache-and-ink fashion illustrations of his original designs, drawn for Harper's Bazaar from...
Although the bill has already passed through the Senate. Coddington said he is confident the current lame-duck Congress will not pass it, because of the limited time Congress will have to discuss the proposed legislation...
Neither do the Democrats, who plan to introduce their own job-creation legislation during the three-week lame-duck session. O'Neill anticipates bringing up a bill to construct more public housing and subsidize mortgages, and a proposal to plump up public repair and maintenance jobs. But given the President's determination to steer clear of conventional remedies for unemployment, even O'Neill's aides refer to the bills as "veto bait...