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...they've ever known before," bragged a Nixon staff member. Their debut was telecast live and in color from Washington's Shoreham Hotel, but not without some fancy logistical footwork: on short notice the Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association, gathered in annual convention, agreed to relinquish the elegant Palladian Room, more than 100 other public and private rooms, and 14 suites for the President-elect and his entourage of aides and newsmen...
This volume is apparently designed to feed the fantasies of split-level people who yearn to wake up one morning in a Palladian villa, a Roman palazzo or a great Georgian house in County Wicklow. The sumptuous interiors on display evoke the spacious days when every European princeling was building his own little Versailles and architects like Nash, Vanbrugh, Inigo Jones and Wyatt were adapting Italian magnificence for English country gentlemen. The modern eye can only goggle in awe at heroic staircases, ceilings bulging with putti, acres of marble floors reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely...
...String. As the evening wore on, slides of naked women were projected, suggesting that pornography has its place among the neo-Palladian splendors of the alabaster city. Waiters spilled bits of plastic from trays onto the audience. A woman came on wearing a shredded American flag on her head; her spine was as stiff as a flagpole. It had to be, since it was part of the monument to the victory at Iwo Jima, and three soldiers held her at the appropriate tilt. A 14-year-old boy in a Lincolnesque beard entered the room, was shown to his seat...
...latest focal point of Barbados is Sandy Lane, a hotel built two years ago by English-born Manhattan Socialite Ronald Tree, whose wife, Marietta, is U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. There is nothing sandy about Sandy Lane; Millionaire Tree, who has built a handsome Palladian house in Barbados, spared no expense in building and furnishing his hotel. Jet-setters have been flocking there; its 100 beds are currently booked through mid-March (at $36 to $57). So are the other leading hotels, such as the Coral Reef Club and Sam Lord's Castle, a West Indies...
...David Wolper. At 34, Wolper is the youngest, and often the most vigorous, of the three. His offices on Hollywood's Sunset Strip have grown in the past 42 months from a five-man luck-it shop to a 200-employee corporation with bright white neo-Palladian faqade and 40 cutting rooms-some of which are already crammed with the 8,000,000 ft. of film that Wolper is condensing into The Making of the President 1960, a two-part version of Teddy White's admiring chronicle of the luck of John F. Kennedy...