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...Mike Saint-Just Alexandria...
...only to that of the President himself ?and that trusts him more. He has a computer-driven fund raising organization, the Congressional Club, which has raised millions of dollars for Helms and dozens of other conservative candidates. He has a born politician's ease with a crowd, a saint's generosity toward individuals in distress?and a Malthusian indifference to human suffering on a larger scale. He is, in short, in the great tradition of amiable, infuriating, pious, callous, dangerous, ordinary and compelling characters who from time to time emerge to animate American politics...
...coral up the side of a Capodimonte porcelain ewer, for instance, or the gross theatrical energy of the silver-gilt devotional statues. Perhaps the most striking of these is a bust of St. Irene protecting Naples from lightning. The city is held up by a cherub, and the saint holds out her right palm: a gilt thunderbolt is stuck in it. Wonderwoman does it again. The Neapolitans liked their religion brassy and extravagant, and they still...
From the most remote Brittany fishing village to the tiniest French Alpine hamlet, no local matter is too minor to escape the attention of the Paris government. The Atlantic coastal town of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer wants to extend a street? It needs the signatures of the Minister of the Interior and the Premier before the asphalt can be poured. A poultry association in the small Vendee city of Challans wants to produce Christmas turkeys? It must satisfy the Ministry for Agriculture that its birds meet national standards. And so it has long been in France, the Western nation with...
...sequined Capri pants and speckled harlequin glasses. Gazing into the glittering windows of Saks in Beverly Hills, Dolce muses: "The whole thing reminds me of Palm Springs à la 1950." But the current gilt trip, according to Mirabella, began in the spring of 1980 with French Designer Yves Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear collection. His show included a gold leather skirt and a gold-threaded scarf. The look quickly followed the path of least resistance to Saint Tropez, where gold-brocaded jogging shorts, silver bikinis and gold jackets over denim skirts became as common last summer, says...