Word: pendants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart of Cataldo's Microlert is a tiny radio transmitter, about the size of a cigarette lighter, that is worn around the neck. When this battery-powered pendant is squeezed in an emergency, it sends out a signal that from as far away as 300 feet (92 meters) triggers into action a larger unit containing a tape cassette and player. Plugged into a telephone jack, the device automatically dials a series of preprogrammed numbers-an ambulance service, say, then a doctor's office-and sounds the appropriate taped message for each. Samples: "There is a medical emergency...
...Theater is an eye-blinker. Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination. In perfect aesthetic juxtaposition, Gorey's costumes are funereal black, with ruby splashes in a proffered drink or a crimsoned pendant to accent the theme of Dracula's blood lust...
Baubles That Blink. Elizabeth Taylor's jewels sparkle. Lou Rawls' pendant and Joe Frazier's sweater pins merely blink. The singer and former heavyweight boxing champion are early addicts of a new kind of costume jewelry that is fitted with special electronic circuits and powered by a hearing-aid battery. A small Phoenix company, H.A. Register, Inc., introduced the baubles last July, and has sold some 26,000 (retail price: $15). The blinking red lights are embedded in small, gold-colored trinkets, variously designed as traffic lights, question marks and Santa Claus, among other things. They...
...profusion of fine works!" As it is in Proust, snobbery is often the essential subject of art nouveau. There is plenty of costly jewelry made today; but what modern design by Bulgari or Tiffany does not look gross or commonplace beside a piece like Lalique's swan pendant of 1898? In those cool, exquisite loops and featherings of enamel one sees a vanished sensibility: distanced, calm, perfectly judged, and soon to be destroyed by the tensions of a new century...
...Vulgari is surrounded by "diamonds and pearls. . . except for the third pearl from the left, which is courtesy of Woolworth's." Other gems are the " 'La Fabiola' Faerie Diamond," the "Royal Order of the Corset" rubies, and the social climber's special-an outsized pendant dubbed "The Fitz-Hall" ("and it does"), featuring France's Regent diamond, now barricaded in the Louvre...