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...shirtlike beach smock, in white and red cotton squares with a white pique collar, so long that it hides the bathing suit and so puffy that it resembles a maternity blouse. Other eye-catchers: the butterfly-winged cape which Princess Gabriella di Giardinelli ("Gabriellasport") designed for her yellow silk evening gown; a short evening dress of black lace on white organdie by the Fontana sisters; a white wool pullover, with close-fitting slacks, by Milan's Mirsa. Not only U.S. buyers, but Europeans, flocked to the salons. Plainly, the Italians were giving the French plenty of cause for worry...
...Pretty, witty Nell" soon became a fine comedian, caused such an uproar with her sallies and such a sensation with her "neat silk leg and pair of holland thighs" that half of the Restoration bucks were bidding for her favors. Hart sold her to Lord Buckhurst, but Nelly didn't like him, and besides, a scepter was already tapping at her door. Poet John Dryden has described some of the charms that caught the royal eye: "Oval face, clear skin, hazel eyes, thick brown eyebrows ... a full nether lip ... the bottom of your cheeks a little blub...
Wiley has never thought to mention how he himself got interested in the Office of Alien Property. OAP caught his attention last spring when his brother-in-law unsuccessfully represented the International Silk Guild in a $578,000 claim against the agency. Later, Wiley's interest in OAP was unaccountably heightened by ex-OAP Boss Crowley, now a big railroader in Wiley's home state. Crowley suddenly showed up in Washington to promote a better deal for Ernest Halbach, U.S.-born former president of General Dyestuff, Aniline's marketing subsidiary. Halbach was kept on as a consultant...
...dummies sports a mask composed of a Chinese red semi-sphere and what looks like one half of a stone arrowhead with a black eye hole in the center. One of his arms is a lance, surrounded by a bell-like guard. The other arm, wearing skin-tight silk encased in a gourd shaped sheath, holds a golden club. The remaining five costumes, all designed by Oscar Schlemmer for a Bauhaus ballet, are only a little less spectacular...
Henry Adams, in his eloquent book about Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, called these windows "the most splendid color decoration the world ever saw, since no other material, neither silk nor gold, and no opaque color laid on with a brush, can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them...