Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso excel in their arts, share alliterative names, dote on the South of France and enjoy worldwide fame-and that is not all they have in common. BB, when clothed, often wears a silver circle necklace with a pendant of Venetian crystal. PP, when he puts on a shirt, sports a pair of silver cuff links adorned with delicately hued beach pebbles. The jewelry is the work of a lithe Swedish girl named Torun Bulow-Hube, who lives with her husband in the tiny Riviera village of Biot and is known to a growing coterie...
...Triennale and a few months later got the coveted, U.S.-endowed Lunning Prize (it was Frederik Lunning who introduced Georg Jensen to the U.S.). Last week she had two shows running concurrently in the Museums of Fine Arts in Oslo and Copenhagen-a rich array of swirling and sparkling silver lightly sprinkled with semiprecious stones...
Chassis & Chalices. The green-eyed descendant of a long line of Swedish musicians, painters and architects, Torun began her career at a Stockholm school of industrial arts, where she fashioned everything from parts of automobile chassis to handwrought silver chalices. Drawn to Paris, she set up shop in a cheap Left Bank hotel, developed the technique that she has followed fairly consistently ever since. Not wishing to disturb her fellow tenants by hammering, she would draw and file her silver strips until they could be bent and twisted and hooked into graceful designs...
...Nine Best Men." The man who blew the whistle on Silver & Co. was their legal boss. State Commissioner of Education James E. Allen, Jr. For years, Allen has tried to get the city's schools fiscally free, politically sanitized and decentralized, with more power going to the 54 presently impotent local boards. For weeks, he has urged the top board to clean house or quit. Asked by Governor Rockefeller to recommend action, Allen called for a special session of the legislature to organize an interim school board, appointed by the State Board of Regents, and set up an advisory...
...grandstand play," snorted Candidate Wagner, who countered by summoning his own advisory council, headed by Ford Foundation President Heald. The council criticized Allen's "caretaker"' plan as inefficient, but also urged the expulsion of Silver & Co. The mayor happily agreed. Then, concerned about charges of state interference in city affairs. Rockefeller toned down Allen's proposal to make reorganization of the board's functions its key item...