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Chanel even outdid Chanel. Stealing the spotlight from her celebrated suits were gay, graceful dresses, many sidewrapped, mostly ruffled, pleated or tiered. Top Coco: an elegant-innocent white organdy evening dress with enough ruffles to fill Swan Lake...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness and Louis Jourdan in The Swan (1956). Color...
...DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Kaye and Guest Imogene Coca will perform Swan Lake with, one presumes, new variations...
...unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." Tiffany lamps are Camp, she says by way of illustration, and so is a fondness for Scopitone films and the lurid pseudo journalism of the weekly New York National Enquirer. Turn-of-the-century postcards are Camp; so is enthusiasm for the ballet Swan Lake and the 1933 movie King Kong. Dirty movies are Camp -provided one gets no sexual kick out of them-and so are the ideas of the French playwright Jean Genet, an ex-thief and pederast who boasts about it. "Genet's statement that 'the only criterion...
...hotbeds" kept at the office for such emergencies; coordinating their efforts, Bank President Alfred Hayes was on the job before dawn, when European offices began to open. In Washington, Martin and Roosa each made pitches to half a dozen bankers overseas. It was, in fact, Roosa's swan song in Government after a distinguished four-year career; at week's end, in accordance with a previous plan, he submitted his resig nation to enter private banking...