Word: porcelain
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...drift was continental. Luxury shops in Rio's narrow Rua do Ouvidor featured Czech china, Danish porcelain, Italian pottery. British cars rolled along the boulevards. In Argentina, U.S. goods had all but disappeared. Across the river in Uruguay, the trade trend to Europe also ran strongly. There, where three years ago the U.S. supplied almost half of all imported goods, the British and the Germans had seized the lead. By the terms of a January agreement, Uruguay will buy $70 million worth of goods, perhaps one-third of its 1950 needs, from Germany. The Uruguayan deal was the biggest...
...other parts are well done; notably Anna Maria Canali as Maddalena and Marcella Govini as Gilda. I feared for a while that Miss Govini was a follower of the still-flourishing Jeanette MacDonald School of Cinema Singers--those unique actresses who manage somehow to sing through their teeth (or porcelain caps, as the case may be) and whose little tummies are never seen to be heaving for a breath. However, in this instance, pretty Miss Govini is only fronting for the beautiful voice of Lina Pagluigli...
...Interior Oscar Chapman, who found his mail loaded with paperweights after the newspapers ran a story last month saying that he collected the things as a hobby. Among the whatnots he was sent by well-wishers: a weighted mahogany gavel, a glass basin filled with coins, a porcelain pig, a bronze nude in a bronze bathtub...
...Covent Garden every night in the week for a year, but she could walk through Picadilly Circus with a neon light around her head without one person saying, "There goes Margot Fonteyn.' " She has a flat just a block from Covent Garden, filled with period furniture ("mixed") and porcelain cats, spends much of her free time with her mother, a striking, silver-haired woman whom Margot and her friends have nicknamed "The Black Queen...
...smart shop where a bride may order everything from her china, glassware and sterling to her custom-tailored furniture and kimonos. Gump's will give shelf room to a $12.50 piece of California pottery-if it is esthetically good-alongside a $1,800 piece of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and encourages its customers to do the same...