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...clamor at Zetra follows figure skating like a pack of sequin salesmen, for of all Olympic sports, none is as intensively handicapped-some might say predetermined. The four-year cycle between the Winter Games is spent shaking down a new generation of skaters in annual world championships. By the time the Olympic flame is lit again, a pecking order has been created that places ruthless demands on contenders and newcomers alike. For the favorites, there is the safety of incumbency. Like heavyweight champions, they cannot lose their titles on a draw: they must be beaten. But with that status come...
...rhinestone-and sequin-soaked suits have left audiences gasping while he excuses himself to "change into something a little more spectacular." But no one has managed to turn excess into success like Liberace, 64, who still reigns as the glitter king of the big-bucks show-biz circuit. To be sure, he still faces the unresolved "palimony" suit filed against him by his former chauffeur-bodyguard Scott Thorson, 24. But nothing is dampening the celebration of his 40th year in show business. For the first time he is taking his Las Vegas show-sets and kaboodle-on the road...
...South Carolina-are trying to prove. With a budget of $12.9 million, they have filmed or taped programs all over the country. Next on the list are BJ. Merholz's King of America, the story of early Greek immigrants to the U.S., and Jesus Salvador Trevino's Sequin, the tale of a Mexican American who raised an army to fight the forces of Santa Anna...
Even for this peculiar presidential election, it was a week of bizarre happenings. At a $125-a-plate fund-raising dinner in San Francisco, Independent John Anderson sat stunned as sequin-clad Gary Poole led his disco dance troupe through a series of exotic routines. A male dancer hauled a woman, clad in a white jumpsuit, around the stage on a leash. After the dance was over, Anderson remarked to the 400 partygoers: "I'm guilty of a certain Midwestern naiveté. I've never seen anything quite like this before...
...private clubs called krewes, parade through the streets, their brightly costumed riders scattering beads and doubloons to the crowds. Festivities build to a final burst of brilliance on Mardi Gras Day when Rex and Comus, the monarchs of Mardi Gras, reign over their lavish parades and balls in resplendent sequin-and-satin costumes...