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...rising. The song is from Baker Street, which has yet to reach Broadway. But the recording is already so popular with disk jockeys that every time a transistor is flipped on, or so it seems, out comes Married Man. This, without doubt, is because the recording artist, the nouveau ducktail of this display of flaming treacle, is none other than Richard Burton, who has no connection with Baker Street. He merely recorded the song to exploit his peerage in the aristocracy of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Alley: No One Richer Than | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...styles, all sizes, and some colors that even the spectrum hasn't seen for years. Hanes offers a heavy-ribbed version in "Rajah White," Christian Dior a fishnet design in "the ocean's own colors." There are textures that look like flowers, some patterned on art nouveau curlicues, others with clover leaves, diamond shapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Mottles of Perfection | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...James Goffs belong neither to the Old Guard nor to the flashy new set but to a special stratum in between, a sort of nouveau niche. Mr. Goff is a lawyer, Mrs. Goff his first wife. Instead of an old-style town house or suburban estate, they have a wood-paneled-duplex city apartment. Like Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Goff, 33, is partial to Chanel, makes do at local shops and "the boutiques in New York, when it works out" between annual trips to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The New Elegants | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...Hollywood Galatea (Garbo in Camille, Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight), she exquisitely personifies "a squashed cabbage leaf" transformed into an English rose. Her comedy scenes are delectable, her charm ineluctable, and her first appearance among society folk at Ascot-in a gown created by Designer Cecil Beaton, whose art nouveau sets and costumes are a splendid show in themselves-is one of those great movie moments seldom accomplished without the help of brass bands and fireworks. And Hepburn tops that when she begins describing, in precise Mayfair accents, the drunken demise of her old aunt: "Gin was mother's milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Still the Fairest One of All | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...world looks back to the other styles of art nouveau's time-Fauvism, cubism, futurism, expressionism-with an interest that is chiefly academic. But art nouveau was at heart a designer's style; to look back at it is to arouse a warmly human desire to exploit once again, in modern design, its oddly disturbing colors, its writhing forms, its almost erotic character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Styles: New Look at Art Nouveau | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

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