Word: shawls
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...amount of bitterness, however, could dim the merry spirits of the people in the Square, who laughed. "It is so funny," a middle-aged woman in a brown shawl managed to say, "It is funnier than Playboy...
...bond with Vienna. "I would convert to Judaism," he often quips, "if the operation didn't hurt so much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak Hebrew." After the other guests had chanted Hasidic songs for the couple, Mehta sang themes...
...obvious before Conductor Charles Munch's first downbeat at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees that the Orchestre de Paris was a striking departure from the Parisian norm. Its 110 members were predominantly young (average age: 35). They were dressed alike in midnight blue Pierre Cardin tails with shawl collars and burgundy sashes. And wonder of wonders, they played together, and beautifully...
...Wyeth, 20, improving on his father's style while putting in some 200 hours on a portrait of John F. Kennedy; Violinist James Oliver Buswell, 20, carrying a full Harvard freshman load and a 44-city concert tour simultaneously; Actress Julie Christie, 25, shedding miniskirt for bonnet and shawl while filming Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and denouncing "kooky clothing" in the women's magazines. It is Sanford Greenberg, 25, president of the senior class at Columbia, Phi Bete, Ph.D. from Harvard, George Marshall Scholar at Oxford, special assistant to the White House science adviser...
...pretty dull. Producer Henry Jaffe recalls: "We'd put a performer on a bleak stage in front of a dirty curtain and say, 'Perform!' " Perform they did, often superbly, but Bell began to feel its image had become ossified. This season, the program has shucked its shawl and gone off in search of adventure -and in the process become one of the best series on TV. Using hand-held cameras and available light, spotting sound technicians in the middle of a performing orchestra, spending time and money horrendously, the Telephone Hour has put together a unique format...