Word: parasolled
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Souvanna thinks the Reds are bound to attack again, but the neutralist-rightist brass are downright cocky and probably overconfident. Tough little Neutralist General Kong Le, newly decorated with his country's Order of the Million Elephants and the White Parasol, Third Class, even talks of sweeping the Reds from the Plain of Jars, most of which they still hold...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. Most of its galleries are closed for air-conditioning installation, so the Met is playing it cool with a long-term exhibition of Fabergé bric-a-brac. The jeweled Easter eggs, precious parasol handles and assorted semiprecious whatnots would look more at home in Tiffany's down the street. Also on view: the Met's permanent collection of European and U.S. paintings...
...blaze of flashbulbs, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu left Saigon last week on a trip to Beirut, Belgrade, and points west. Elaborately coiffed and gowned, she met reporters and defended her views, attacked her enemies, dodged overly curved questions, and displayed an incredibly fascinating feminine charm. Whether twirling a parasol or hiding shyly behind an ivory fan, she both attracted and annoyed. "I had a strong desire to slap her," said one French television interviewer, "but from very, very close...
Winnie is denied all ambulation, for in Act I she is embedded up to her bosom in a mound. She has in front of her only a parasol and a crowded shopping bag to supplement her own thoughts as time passes. She entertains herself (and us) with this bag of tricks...
...downtown Los Angeles is a wastebasket for crumpled lives. On its grimy benches and littered walks gather the old, the warped, the baffled, the embittered, the workless, aimless flotsam of a great city. A faded woman in an antiquated ball dress and long black gloves glides along, clutching a parasol. Two fat, coarse-faced girls stroll hand in hand. An old man sits limp and vacant-eyed, numbed by the weight of his loneliness...