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...Figures in Black and White, designed sets and costumes for King Kong, the famed South African musical. To Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime, he was a key suspect in the clandestine operations of the anti-apartheid underground. Last month police descended on the artist's swank home in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, arrested Goldreich, his wife Hazel, four other white men, and a dozen nonwhites...
...Laurent's lean, leggy line is a canny blending of swashbuckle and swank known as the "Robin Hood Look." Into a Sherwood Forest setting enhanced by a pair of real copper beech trees trooped the svelte St. Laurent mannequins-all bundled up in shirts, jerkins, tunics, dark knitted hose and seven-league boots. A big hit of the collection was a costume consisting of tight pants, mid-thigh-length boots and a hair seal pullover, with a Robin Hood hat and chained pendant. Pageboy hairdos were common...
Private enterprise has been kind to Mafatlal and his business, which was founded by Arvind's grandfather in 1905. Mafatlal lives with his wife and three children in a swank Altamont Road mansion in Bombay's outskirts, is served by a staff of 65. A devout Hindu, he eats no meat, keeps his own herd of cows to supply his family with milk, and wears simple white cotton from his own mills. Mafatlal and other Indian industrialists of his generation are more civic-minded and less apologetic about wielding great wealth than were their fathers and grandfathers. Since...
...exposes of the American family. In her finely chiseled novels and short stories, she has shown an unfailing eye for the intricacies of the ordinary household, the small gestures that lead to major disasters. Her latest novel is a delicately Freudian one about a family living in a swank small town north of New York...
...enameled gentry of Palm Beach, buffed to a high gloss for opening nights at the swank Royal Poinciana Playhouse, struck Musical Conductor Fred Waring, 62, as nothing more than a bunch of well-heeled Beachniks. "The biggest, overdressed, overstuffed snobs I've ever seen," said Waring, closing a one-week Playhouse stand con brio. "They leave early, and are past masters in the art of rudeness...