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Tripping the light fantastic at the Pudding? Match that cocktail dress with a black satin Tanenhaus bag with a pink sequin strap and a pair of killer plastic legs. Off to yoga class at Wellbridge? Sling along the “Shiva” bag, a divine octagonal sensation with ten lithe dolly arms a-waving...
...reported violence all day?people came calmly to vote for the 88-member constituent assembly that will write the nation's constitution and prepare the path to full independence. Some walked for hours from their villages. Women dressed as if for church, in traditional skirts and formal satin tops. Men crouched in groups, smoking and talking. Tiny girls in party dresses shaded themselves under umbrellas. Among them were those who, despite a concerted civic-education effort by the United Nations and aid agencies, don't yet fully understand the new order their vote will help create. At a polling center...
...always good, always right. Now it was 8 p.m. Bulova Watch time, and, says Houseman, "At that instant, quite regularly week after week, with not one second to spare, the buffoonery stopped. Suddenly out of chaos, the show emerged - delicately poised, meticulously executed, precise as clockwork, smooth as satin." No one doubts that the show?s success was due to the commanding, seductive man standing on a platform above all the rest. "At the start of every broadcast," Herrmann recalled, "Orson was an unknown quantity. As he went along his mood would assert itself and the temperature would start...
Like extraordinary fashion accessories, poodles with topiary cuts and tracts of shaved skin on legs and haunches trot alongside their owners. A spaniel in a shiny pink satin snood waits mournfully in a cage. The dog days of summer are in full swing in Britain, a time when canine events are staged almost nonstop throughout the country. At this year's East of England Championship Show, dogs with show names reminiscent of wartime coded messages - Mariglen Force the Pace with Becksett, Sequentia Reflection in Arabin - compete for titles and trophies. In between the primping and tense sessions with nervous owners...
...immediately recognize the show's small gold lighter with the initials A.G. engraved around a tennis racket as being from Strangers, and the smashed pair of glasses is clearly from The Birds. The presentation of gleaming silver scissors standing upright with one blade stabbed into a base of red satin sends shivers down the spine as it conjures up the murder weapon from Dial M for Murder. Each object - a bread knife (Blackmail), a ruby necklace (Vertigo), a glass of milk on a silver tray (Suspicion), a black lace bra (Psycho) - is placed on a square of red satin...