Word: setters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words, is "perhaps revolution, not in the Communist sense but in the Bucky Fuller sense, meaning that if we don't learn to adapt ourselves to the modern situation now, it's the end-and the artist must show us the way." The star and theme setter of the art exhibit, appropriately enough, is that grand old Russian revolutionary and pioneer sculptor of the 1920s, Naum Gabo, 77, with 28 constructions on display. Though the original idea for the festival was Foss's, the planning and expenses are being borne by a dozen different local and state...
...turtlenecks are becoming fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with French cuffs. Another evening alternative is the Russian-style, high-collared rubashka (cossack shirt), which buttons up the side and is much favored by Colonel Serge Obolensky, the White Russian public relations man from Manhattan. Italian Jet Setter Count Rodolfo Crespi dresses up his rubashka with diamond studs. Frank Sinatra adds a gold medallion, suspended from a chain around his neck...
...Nothing." What gave monarchy the coup de grace, De Gramont suggests, was a new power, a new style setter: public opinion. "My infallible Queen," Jacques Necker, one of Louis XVl's Finance Ministers, called it in a switch of fealty. Public opinion, influenced by Voltaire and a prestigious literary antiEstablishment, made regal style seem dated and absurd even to aristocrats...
Attractive women, however, almost invariably appreciate him?and vice versa. Manhattan Freelance Writer (and Jet Setter) Gloria Steinem finds him "overpowering." Actress Angie Dickinson describes him as "fascinating and funny." Galbraith's yet-to-be-published India diaries return the compliment. "She has fair, pure skin," he cooed after sitting next to Angie on a transcontinental jet in 1961, "blonde to vaguely reddish hair, merry eyes and a neat, unstarved body." Despite his obviously observant eye, Miss Dickinson, who visited the subcontinent in 1962, doubts that he has any "serious romances?or any romances...
With male attention riveted on thigh-high boots and textured panty hose, women have apparently decided that hats are the thing to bring their neglected faces back into focus. "Besides," says Jet Setter Louise Savitt, "no man likes to dance with a woman with cold ears." There is not the slightest danger of cold ears in this year's status-fur hats, be they Adolfo's sables, Mr. John's chinchillas or Halston's minks. "The new styles are great," says Best-Dressed Betsy Theodoracopulos, "and wearing them cuts down on visits to the hairdresser." Since...