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...dangling hook. She thrusts the hook into a ring knotted in her hair, and while spectators watch in disbelief the rope tautens, and slowly she is lifted up and up through the elephant-scented air until she is dangling 73 ft. high. Then she calmly starts juggling three pastel Indian clubs, all the while hanging by her hair...
...BRAGAR has a narrow, waterproof cape with detachable epaulettes and big brass buttons in khaki poplin ($20) and in lovely blue corduroy. ($24). Most stores carry several good styles, but GERTRUDE SINGER'S cape collection remains unsurpassed in Cambridge. In Boston, FILENE'S is showing some striking models in pastel wools with shoulder button closings...
...Moffo is ideally gifted to sing Manon-both Puccini's and Massenet's. In this two-LP collection of scenes from both operas, she enhances Puccini by shading and softening the music where it is too bold, then enriches Massenet with a vivid, vibrant performance of his pastel score...
...takes his specimens home, adds models from his own garden, examines them with a magnifying glass to capture their curvy novelty. He roughs out his ideas in scale drawings in pastel and charcoal before taking up his chisel and hammer. Yet his instinct with natural material rules his work. His guide is "marrying the inner intention to the wood"; like the action painter who follows the nature of his paint, Muir runs with the grain...
...learned his art by studying the paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, Sumerian tablets, and linear Egyptian murals. Prime examples are now on view at Manhattan's World House Galleries. To recapture timelessness in a modern idiom, Samant works spontaneously like an action painter, performing with his passionate pastel colors in such fast-drying media as spackle and plastic wood. Then he watches the painting for weeks. "If it's good," he shrugs, "it stands out. If it's bad, it fails...