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...living in world-weary isolation behind the walls of their vast estate, which survives like a verdant enclave in the provincial city of Ferrara. Father Ermanno is an aging scholar-gentleman who has passed his life in obscure antiquarian studies, and who regards the Fascists with courtly contempt. Mother Olga is an aristocratic wraith who lives only to mourn the death of her six-year-old child. Son Alberto is a languid dilettante. Daughter Micol is a beautiful, spirited intellectual who cannot bring herself to escape the family's fortress of unreality...
Those who like their lingerie brief and to the point can slip into Warner's combination bra-slip ($11) or Olga's lace-trimmed romper ($6). Finally, Formfit/Rogers has something that occurs in one fell swoop: its so-called "Bathing Suit" ($12.50) is not only backless and practically frontless but scooped away at the midriff until there is almost nothing left. But that, of course, is the whole idea...
...Damaris Ames, Susan M. Billings, Mrs. Margery K. Cameron, Cynthia A. Conwell, Carolyn R. Fawcett, Leigh I. Friedman, Michal A. Goldman, Susan E. Hand, Mrs. Ann F. Henderson, Alice L. Mattice, Susan E. Milmoe, Joan A. Newlon, Penelope B. Reed, Mrs. Kathryn K. Sklar, Mrs. Dina R. Spechler, and Olga Verhovskoy...
Picasso was a collector of people as well as things. He constantly visited Françoise predecessor, Dora Maar, who responded by conventionally snubbing Françe when they met. It did not bother him a bit that his first wife, Olga, trailed Françe around the streets. He even kept an entire apartment in Paris, where he had lived with Olga, intact. His suits were still there, moth-eaten to the seams; paintings were slathered with inches of dust. But Pi casso regarded it as a kind of album of his first marriage. Taken to see it, Fran...
...translator of foreign poets, but that too required government ap proval. Since her small apartment on Moscow's Potapov Street had been turned over to strangers, she was even dependent on the state for new quarters. But the small problems of practical life were no more for Olga than they had been for Lara. She spent her first day in Moscow at Pasternak's grave...