Word: sante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, after a two-month hiatus, the mild-mannered accountant returned to France from the Greek island of Corfu-tanned, newly bearded and quite penniless. Locked up in Paris' La Santé prison, he faces trial in an affair that has become as labyrinthine as the maze of catacombs that lies under the jail...
...date for Americans. "The collection has no relationship to what's happening to women today," observed Ralph Lauren. Halston declared that "the costume party is over for America." Others, like Clovis Ruffin, loved it. "It reminds me of the grand old days of Paris." he said. Giorgio Sant' Angelo called it "beautiful," adding, "but to me it looks like a very old revolution...
Designer Diane von Furstenberg offered a roll of paper towels imprinted with 250 lipstick kisses. Giorgio di Sant' Angela sent a 9-ft. hand-painted silk banner worth (he said) $20,000. The occasion: a "Fashion as Fantasy" exhibit held in Manhattan to raise money for Fountain House, a New York psychiatric rehabilitation center. Five hundred guests paid $50 each to attend. Topless Swimsuit Creator Rudi Gernreich offered two models decked out in bicycle parts. "In a machine age, people are drawn to machinery," explained Rudi, "and it is sensuous and sexy." Chacun a son gout...
...best-or worst-example is a gang that last week snatched, for a few minutes anyway, Prince Luigi d'Angerio of Sant' Agata. Driving home from a late-night party with his wife Giuseppina and his son Alfredo, the dignified D'Angerio, 65, noticed a pair of headlights following them through the dense fog near Monza. Suddenly, an Alfa Romeo passed D'Angerio's little Fiat, and tried to force it off the road. The inept driver had pulled in front too quickly, however, and Alfredo, who was driving the Fiat, had no choice...
Such figures as the majestic green-feathered angel and the rigid Madonna on the lunette fresco from Sant'Angelo in Formis (see color overleaf) are flesh-made-geometry. Even when a mosaicist tried to be more "naturalistic," as the Venetian artist who executed a Head of an Apostle in Rome around 1218 seems to have done, the medium itself-thousands of glass cubes like colored teeth-automatically formalized the work...