Word: nouveau
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...