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...courtyard. Across the cobblestones, as if for a medieval tournament, white tents opened their flaps to costumed crowds. Celebrities, fashion journalists and retailers from Kansas City to Kuwait milled about. Suddenly, without fanfare, a man in cut-off overalls, a ponytail and phosphorescent orange hightops strolled onto an enclosed runway and slowly spray-painted a huge red heart on a white backdrop. With the exaggerated staginess of a Looney Tune, he turned to the audience, pressed a finger to his lips, as if to say "Shhh!" and tiptoed out. Only then did thumping rock music explode, spotlights ignite and towering...
From the first sketch to the moment he spray-paints his red heart on the runway, Kelly wrestles with the tiniest details. Two hours before the last show, he was backstage in the Louvre tent amid models, dressers, seamstresses, hairdressers, makeup artists, lighting technicians and stagehands. "Paint those red lips!" he ordered. "I want you to look like you just got rid of your third husband!" Dashing through mounds of hats decorated with rhinestone Eiffel Towers, past racks of pink minks, turquoise ostrich feathers, Mexican blankets and red sequined gowns, he fusses with a model's hair. He directs...
...runway after the contest, MacDonald autographed a stick for a young Cambridge girl who claimed to be his biggest...
...Someone, it turns out, who should know better: the U.S. Air Force Space Command. The problem exists at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, where a giant early- warning radar searches for missiles launched from submarines. But the apparatus is only 1.5 miles from the approach end of a runway, and Air Force electronic engineers fear that its emissions could trigger electromagnetic explosive devices on many military aircraft. Those devices are used mainly to discharge fuel tanks or fire air-to-air weapons. To guard against accidental explosions, the radar is manually shut down for up to 90 seconds whenever...
...sense these palliatives make, they would certainly cramp the style of some ultrarich whose money lust is tempered by an engagingly eccentric sense of how to spend their fortunes. Arthur Jones, the gruff, gun- toting inventor of Nautilus sports equipment, is laird of a Florida estate that includes a runway large enough to land his own Boeing 707; it is used, among other things, to fly in wild animals for medical research. One of them, which Jones proudly shows Packard, is a reptilian rarity: the biggest saltwater crocodile in captivity. Nice pet for a man who is a rather awesome...