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...appears in the vision scene. Mostly, though, the ballet stays close to the music and its own fresh nature. That makes the gaudy, tacky costumes, designed by William Chappell, all the harder to understand. Baryshnikov has a golden garter and a necklace. The other men have little glitters sewn onto their tights. The women look less camped up, but they do wear quantities of rhinestones. The kindest conclusion is that it was all intended to convey some imaginary land where, as Yeats said, there are "silver apples of the moon and golden apples...
...zero and the wind-chill factor made it feel like -50°. Team assistants used a hair dryer to keep Annemarie's boots warm and flexible in the small start house atop the 2,698-meter downhill run. Her face was coated with an anti-frostbite cream. Sewn inside her uniform was a photograph of her father...
...those who will not scrimp on slumber, some U.S. stores are stocking super-sheets. Macy's in Manhattan has some by France's Porthault that have hand-sewn scalloped edges and are made of 100% cotton, but might as well be gold: a queen-size set costs $645. Uptown at Bloomingdale's, a set of cotton sheets, pillow cases and comforters by Italy's T&J Vestor goes for $5,000. Big-ticket bedding is "a fashion statement," says Bloomies. It could also serve as a bank statement...
...Cubans arrived on the little island (750 sq. mi.) with a promise of $5 million in relief assistance from Havana, they were greeted by scores of U.S. flags fluttering from surviving buildings. The spontaneous display of the flags, (which a merchant had brought to the island to be sewn into colorful shirts) indicated that the U.S. had beaten the Cubans to a Caribbean disaster with tangible aid-for a change...
Despite the festive atmosphere, the nerve-racking suspense that has characterized the final night of Easterns in so many years past was just about absent Saturday evening after the Crimson had virtually sewn up the meet with its performance at the trials earlier...