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...Times Building, resembling an aluminum-and-marble houseboat run aground, has long struck its beholders as an eyesore. Suddenly it has become the visual star of the Windy Cityscape. Deciding that the structure would be a good backdrop for his latest creation, titled Bess' Sunrise, Textile Artist Maya Romanoff adorned the building with 28 brightly colored canvas strips, each 6 ft. wide and 120 ft. long. Suspended from the seventh-floor terrace and hanging down to the edge of the Chicago River, the work offers a billowing spectacle of warm yellow-oranges and radiant blue- greens...
...paint the Mono Lisa?" Sheed asks aimlessly. And elsewhere: "It was almost as hard to tell how much Ali was really suffering as it is with his fellow Capricorn Nixon-I don't believe in Astrology, but... ?" and, "He reigns on in splendid detachment, like the last Romanoff or the Aga Khan-what is an Aga anyway? Is it a place or something...
Though best known as a film actor (Topkapi, Spartacus), playwright (Romanoff and Juliet) and radio and TV wit ("NATO? Six nations in search of an enemy!"), Peter Ustinov is also an old hand at opera. Over the past decade he has staged one-acters by Puccini, Ravel and Schonberg at Covent Garden, and in 1968 he directed a successful new version of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Hamburg State Opera. Until that possible day when he sings and acts all the parts in Wagner's Ring cycle, Ustinov's most ambitious operatic venture will...
...RENT TUXEDOS AND BRIDAL GOWNS sign ($125) to a magnificent $225 fixture reading IRVING'S KOSHER. For those with a political bent, there is a huge sign exhorting the voters to ELECT LAZZARA SENATOR for $100. ("We don't know if he won or not," says Romanoff.) The gallery also includes some contemporary fixtures designed especially for home decorating: large neon circles ($100) that can be substituted for chandeliers over dining tables, and decorative pieces consisting of luminous outlines of flowers, telephones, umbrellas-even a pair of lips...
Ultimately Stern and Romanoff plan to hire a glass blower who will create fixtures to order. The first orders have already begun to roll in. "A man who collects things with mushrooms called and said he's been thinking for years of a neon mushroom," says Stern. "We told him we'd make him one and he's ecstatic...