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Norell's gowns are more than short; they're shapeless. One after another, his models whirled around in shifts that barely exposed a single curve between neck bone and kneecap. Still, the dresses looked classically elegant. Some were pastel-colored, with a wide band of bugle beads on cuffs and hems; others were made entirely of beads in gay, candy-colored stripes. "Long gowns are old-fashioned," he explained. "Why should women wear skirts above the knees in daytime and sweep the floors at night...
...PASTEL BLUES (Philips). Whoever called these blues pastel is colorblind. This is raw, strong and often ugly singing by Nina Simone, who makes one chilling visit to the South (Strange Fruit-"black bodies swinging from the trees") but mostly moans and shouts with gospel fervor about love and loneliness (End of the Line, Ain't No Use). Be My Husband is sung to the accompaniment of a loudly cracking whip...
First of all, application forms don't even look alike. The Fulbright applications, administered by the State Department, come in pastel (jungle?) green. Moreover, they come in quadruplicate. One explanation is that a panel of four experts will be reading the applications simultaneously; another is that the government figures that three of them will be lost forever in files...
...Madone du Village shot up to $82,500 (v. his previous all-time high of $77,500). Bonnard's opalescent bath peekaboo at his wife, La Glace Haute, went to the Carnegie Institute for $155,000 (v. $101,000). When Degas' Repetition de Ballet, a pastel and gouache painting considered the high point of the evening, came up on the block, it was greeted like a masterful pas de deux. The winning bidder, Dealer Stephen Hahn, did not even make a move until the price was $360-000, then calmly kept the pressure up until...
Under the benign eyes of hundreds of Russian cops, the "students" spattered the embassy's yellow pastel facade with ink, smashed 202 windows. By way of contrast, when 400 American students later picketed the Soviet embassy in Washington in orderly fashion, police kept them 1½ blocks away from the building...