Word: porcelain
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...Shades of Lauder blue are everywhere. Porcelain bowls of French beaded flowers, porcelain birds of jeweled hues, drapes copied from the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna . . . Oriental carpets resting on Lauder blue carpeting . . . It's very thrilling." Estee Lauder loves her lavish office. She is equally entranced by her three-story Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen...
...Appreciation of American Porcelain: Seminar by J. Garrison Stradling at the Jones Gallery of Glass and Ceramics, Sebago, Maine, Saturday at 11:00am, call...
...than 70% of his practice. "It used to be only theater types coming in," he says. "Now it's secretaries, businessmen, accountants, policemen." Patients can choose from a variety of cosmetic procedures that include bleaching, which offers a temporary lightening of tooth stains, and the application of veneers, thin porcelain or acrylic facades that have been likened to false fingernails...
...committee expects that income will equal or even surpass the cost, as it did last time. The sources: ticket sales, souvenirs ranging from cuff links and tie-bar sets ($25) to porcelain eagles ($1,750), and $2.2 million from advertising on the televised portion of the Inaugural gala (ABC). But some cost-cutting efforts have backfired. Seeking 200 performers for public events, a committee consultant placed an ad in a trade publication for nonunion, "clean-cut, All-American types," to work for expenses but no wages. Several unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, which Reagan headed more than three decades...
...while the film is not without humor--such as the scene where Adela's servant is brewing tea in a porcelain toilet bowl, for example--the film does sink occasionally into pomposity. Too many intense closeups or large-scale shots of clamoring, turbaning masses, combined with a bombastic, schmaltzy musical score, sometimes prove overwhelming. Still, with its minor problems, it is a daring and breathtaking film...