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Iris gave an open-palace party that was attended, if sometimes only briefly, by "everybody."' The next night, the Chicago collectors Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Maremont chartered a vaporetto to take 130 guests to dine on the island of Torcello. After dinner, a band was brought in and everyone did the twist, including British Sculptor Lynn Chadwick and René d'Harnoncourt, the chief dignitary from Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Observer McCarthy early admits that in Venice, appearance is reality: "The tourist Venice is Venice: the gondolas, the sunsets, the changing light, Florian's, Quadri's, Torcello, Harry's Bar, Murano, Burano, the pigeons, the glass beads, the vaporetto. Venice is a folding picture-postcard of itself." But Tourist McCarthy is no ordinary tourist. Whether she is discussing the merits of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini, Giorgione, or building up a rare head of social protest steam over the teen-age slaveys whose eyes are being ruined in the lace factory at Burano, her reflections bear the stamp...
...means, make an excursion to Torcello while you are in Venice," he continued. "Torcello is situated on a little group of islands not far away. It is like Venice as a village, a rural Venice, a Venice not built up, as Venice is today, so that you can't see the canal from the house-tops...
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