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...still some in the business who have not learned about promptness. Yet business is the wrong word; what is going on in a French or Italian studio is the creation of art, and art must not be hurried. (The French and Italian editions of Vogue are rich, fantastical, lavish to the point of grotesquerie, photographed and laid out by whimsical dreamers.) Hence men like the renowned Paris-based photographer Peter Knapp are horrified by the American custom of paying models by the hour, so that the meter is running whenever she is in the studio. "Today the girls...
...began the end of the hostages' ordeal amid the cavalcade of Inaugural festivities that had started Saturday night. From the opening fireworks to the last dance, it was the biggest, most lavish, most expensive presidential welcome ever. All told, an estimated $11 million was spent on the eating, drinking and merrymaking (Carter's Inaugural celebration cost $4.8 million). Like all Inaugurals, none of it came out of taxpayers' pockets. Corporations and individuals gave the Presidential Inaugural Committee $8 million in interest-free loans, which will be partly paid off from the sale of souvenirs and tickets...
Ronald Reagan was to assume that awesome responsibility at noon Tuesday, in the midst of the most lavish festivities ever to surround a presidential Inauguration. They officially got under way Saturday night with a fireworks show at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by this week's succession of parties and balls. But that was only the televised surface. Reagan's own final preparations for his new post were both more personal and more businesslike: an emotional farewell to California, where he had risen from obscurity to show-biz celebrity and political power, and the final drafting in Washington...
Says one official who worked under him in the Nixon Administration: "Those generals and admirals will chew him up and spit him out in 15 minutes." That, however, is not the prevailing view; most old hands think Weinberger will make sure that the extra dollars Reagan intends to lavish on the military are spent on muscle rather than frills and fat. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as an assistant to Henry Kissinger was an Administration colleague of Weinberger's: "I'd expect him to be very jaundiced on Defense spending without limit, to bring an air of realism...
...chips. Yet, on a given street on a given day, Rolls-Royces idle bumper to splendid bumper; the air is soaked in Bal a Versailles; diamonds go like Tic Tacs. From now to Christmas The New Yorker will be heaving with ads for crystal yaks and other lavish doodads in "limited editions," for which one assumes there must be buyers. Saks Fifth Avenue, which advertises itself as all the things we are, has recently decided that we are a 14-karat gold charge plate ($750). Of course such stuff is not for the multitudes. But you would think that...