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...least 5 ft. 9 in., bone thin, have full lips, high cheekbones, large eyes, long legs and a straight, not too prominent nose. Models today are taller and fitter than those of previous generations, with fuller lips and bigger breasts. "The models are still skinny," comments Susan Moncur, 41, a semiretired Paris model, "but with big tits -- real or false...
...Says Crawford: "People think I'm jealous of Niki Taylor. But I got my 15 minutes of fame, and when you get it you realize it's not what it's cracked up to be." But quitting has never been easy for these coddled darlings. Says ex-model Moncur: "You exist through others' eyes. When they stop looking at you, there's nothing left...
...Wear Daily (Publisher John Fairchild, Associate Editor Carolyn Gottfried, European Fashion Writer Marian McEvoy), the New York Times (Morris, Carrie Donovan of the Sunday Magazine), the Washington Post (Hyde), the International Herald Tribune (Hebe Dorsey), Vogue (Fashion Editor Polly Mellen) and Harper's Bazaar (Fashion Editor Gloria Moncur). In their hearts they know that however expert they are at fashion journalism, their heft and influence derive primarily from the importance of their publications. Opposite them were the most influential Europeans. Said Dorsey, a veteran hemline watcher: "If I'm not in the front row, I make a fuss...
Jazz THE NEW WAVE IN JAZZ (Impulse!). Five combos, led by avant-garde Jazzmen John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Charles Tolliver, Grachan Moncur and Albert Ayler. "Trane" sets the stage by skywriting his personal hieroglyphics with his tenor sax. Even farther out is Saxophonist Ayler. His Holy Ghost consists of hysterical, sizzling squiggles of sound played fast and high, while a drummer beats insistently, as though knocking on a locked door. "It's about feelings," Ayler explains...
...STEP BEYOND: JACKIE McLEAN (Blue Note). Alto Saxophonist McLean is several steps beyond most listeners' taste, but his musicianship is faultless, and his stratospheric imagination takes him into what may well become the future sound of jazz. Trombonist Grachan Moncur and Drummer Anthony Williams are superb sidemen...
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