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...doesn't." Customers there receive close but not suffocating attention from modish salespeople as they buy pheasant feather necklaces for $270 or silvery snakeskin-covered appointment books for $150. Actress Cicely Tyson, a regular customer, reportedly buys all her furs from Bendel's second-floor salon; and two years ago, former Beatle John Lennon grabbed up $10,000 worth of Christmas goodies for friends at the store's E. A.T. delicacy shop...
...Ella Fitzgerald singing, Minnesota Fats doing billiard tricks, or Glenn Miller's band creating nostalgia. The merchandising was razzle-dazzle, the sales claims often outrageous and heady." Not so in Tokyo. "The typical Japanese new car preview," says Reingold, "is an hour in a packed, hot hotel salon facing a phalanx of unsmiling engineers." But Reingold admits, "Even without the glamour this is a great opportunity to investigate how the Japanese are rewriting the book on this most American of modern industries...
Revulsion, inhibition and the eventual declarations of feminine independence may all have been catalyzed by these early perceptions of the male animal. With the father's death, Virginia and her sister Vanessa establish a London salon, the nucleus of the elitist, eccentric Bloomsbury group. The coolly vitriolic tongues and flamboyant narcissism of the "Bloomsberries" mirrored streaks of casual cruelty and self-absorption in Woolf...
Even the large hotel chains are checking into the small-hotel business. Hyatt Hotels' 225-room Park Hyatt will open on Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" next fall, replete with a tea salon and, in place of the conventional convention hall, a velvet-paneled library. Marriott has franchised the 228-room Galvez in Galveston, Texas, a once splendid Spanish-style hotel that was bought in 1978 by Houston Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley and a partner for $1.75 million. After a $10 million restoration, the Galvez is poised to reclaim its title as "Queen of the Gulf...
Stieglitz arranged to send Hartley abroad in 1912. With such sponsorship, Hartley found himself welcomed into the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and its animated talk of abstraction, of analytical cubism, of form vs, content. Soon Hartley was painting variants of Picasso, Braque, Delaunay, Cezanne and most of all of Kandinsky. He called his new style "subliminal or cosmic cubism...