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...famous for its gin gimlets and beef Stroganoff-only now it was the Peace Hotel, and the ornate front entrance had been sealed off. A great tapestry of Yenan and a red and gold Mao-thought dominated the lobby. The dim lighting, bare walls and slipcovers on the old plush furniture gave the Cathay-Peace the half-open look of a lavish summer resort trying to squeak through the winter. The reception desk, once manned by British-accented Chinese concierges in cutaways and striped pants, was staffed by men and women of the hotel revolutionary committee, identically dressed in heavy...
Since then the group has taken more than 3,000 women to lunch. And the TDOs, whose membership keeps changing as bachelors fall to matrimony, now number about 20, all professionals in their late 20s and early 30s. The luncheons themselves are held in a plush private dining room at Paoli's, a restaurant in the city's financial section; the walls are decorated with such masculine objets d'art as photos of prizefighters and antelope heads...
...stretched over a pencil wire frame, while the body of the car is molded fiberglass. The entire vehicle is painted in various shades of pink, except the purple exhaust columns that run along the sides, and the rear of the car that is painted a pubic hair black. The plush interior of the car is upholstered in tufted black naugahyde and has a rosewood dashboard and paneling...
...gallery art. Like Paige, Ohrberg believes that the cars's sexual symbolism is an appropriate subject for satire, and his "Sex Machine" is an unabashed statement concerning one of the time-honored uses of the automobile. "The Sex Machine's" body is a round bed covered in a plush fur-like red velvet, and sports an overhanging canopy-mirror. The chauffeur sits in hansom coach fashion behind and above the bed so that he can keep his eyes on the road, rather than the passenger compartment--and whatever happens to be going on there...
...time he had four shows running simultaneously, a Shavian feat. In his spare time he confected the books for two successful musicals, Sweet Charity and Promises, Promises, and wrote several movies, among them the new and delightful Heartbreak Kid. Still, with all the disproportionate rewards (Simon owns a plush town house, a country place, a Broadway theater, real estate, cattle and, very possibly, the Atlantic Ocean), he seems less than joyful. He has been described, too often, as a mechanical "yockmeister" whose characters are only scan deep. Moreover, the savor seems to have gone out of his triumphs. Another Simon...