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...Queen ate papaya and heard George Burns tell jokes about octogenarian sex; at an official dinner in Golden Gate Park, goose-liver quenelles in pheasant broth were followed by the San Francisco Opera and Symphony performing a bit of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. A run on velvets and silks? For just one movie-studio dinner, velvet and silk and chiffon were turned into half a million dollars' worth of dresses; custom-made hats (at up to $500 each) and long white kid gloves ($150 a pair) were de rigueur much of the week...
...navy-blue silk suit and white hat. Her simple presence was grand. As she stepped off Britannia's red-carpeted gangway and set foot for the first time in the Western U.S., she waved primly to the crowd, all the while wearing her chairman-of-the-board face...
...years of naval service, I have never seen a naval officer with his coat collar turned up like a journalist's. Pug also should have been wearing a white silk scarf. Otherwise it was a nice shot of Mitchum...
Gemini was known for the obsessive, flawless precision of its printing. It encouraged Stella to make large images by using silk-screen or flat-bed lithography from metal plates-means that more "purist" printmakers, wedded to the nuances of stone lithography, tended to reject as commercially tainted. Stella began to push printmaking toward the scale of painting. The climax of this process was reached in an extraordinary series of prints he did with Tyler Graphics from 1980 onward...
...phones, manufacturers are selling more than simple communication. Says Randall Tobias, president of American Bell Consumer Products: "We expect there will be telephones in rooms where their principal function is decorative." Some phones are designed as objets d'art: a porcelain unit with a hand-knotted silk cord ($495); the shimmering Shellamar Abalone, with its own pearlescent finish ($250) by TeleConcept Inc. of Hartford, Conn. Others are objets de nostalgia: the 1930s-vintage Candlestick ($139) with its separate mouthpiece and earpiece; the Country Junction ($265), which has an oak case and two brass bells...