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...longtime legacy of pro basketball in the South." Yet the club has broken N.B.A. attendance records five times. The football Saints, whose mundane performance on the field is partially offset by their spectacular half-time shows, are also incurable domophiles. and have a ten-year lease on the Poydras palazzo...
...MENGERS, 39, is vice president and resident Hollywood flesh peddler for I.C.M., but she might as well work for Ma Bell. In her Beverly Hills palazzo, the silken-haired, avocado-shaped agent has 14 phones and a WATS line on which she curses and cajoles (in her soft little-girl voice) at least 80 people a day. After her 1973 marriage to Screenwriter Jean-Claude Tramont, Mengers reports, she spent most of their honeymoon in telephone booths on various Greek islands. 'Im a hustler," she admits, but she does not like to be called a "packager." She considers herself...
MASTER PAINTINGS from the Fogg Collection exhibits and points up the defining themes of the Fogg's place and purpose. Subtly, the exhibit celebrates and idealizes the Fogg's physical and intellectual structure. The building was designed in imitation of a Renaissance palazzo--and the spirit of this exhibit is uniquely Renaissance: a syncretic selection of "the best." The impression is enforced physically. Walking through the linked upstairs galleries it's easy to imagine yourself strolling through the suite of a fifteenth or sixteenth century patron of the arts, some Italian prince, perhaps. "That's my last Duchess painted...
...America; I began to mentally illustrate how the form of a building conveys its meaning with my own experiences--what it signifies that Mather House is a fortress on the outskirts of Harvard's enclave, that Leverett House closely resembles a Holiday Inn, or that the Fogg imitates the palazzo of a Renaissance aristocrat. I was not daydreaming distractedly. The National Trust purposely relates their statements to individuals' experience by including exercises in architectural awareness (my favorite: "Find a building that repels you and ask yourself why."). An outline of styles in American architectural history and photographs of aspects...
...into an identical triplet of his Rome and Milan extravaganzas-all mirrors, brass and thick beige carpet. Mario of Florence, who sells women's shoes at from $82 to $420 a pair, operates out of a grand salon that could have been lifted from a jet-age Florentine palazzo. Roberta di Camerino's place, which specializes in sportswear and $200 velvet handbags, has the piny élan of a ski shop at Cortina d'Ampezzo. Bookseller Angelo Rizzoli (who sells magazines, newspapers and records in many languages, as well as lithographs that range in price from...