Word: velvetized
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...dance depicts J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford crushing the starving masses underneath their ridiculous wealth. Even pinup girl Evelyn Nesbit, whose (literally) insanely jealous husband murdered her lover in what was then dubbed "The Crime of the Century," is featured regularly, breathlessly uttering, "Wheee!" as she sits atop a velvet swing...
...caught in a crunch of high inventory, debt and cash-flow problems). The danger, of course, is that you may get the thing in the mail and try it on (a Sherlock Holmes hat or cape, say, or one of those flouncy, too-much-by-half fin-de-siecle velvet gowns: "We drank Veuve Cliquot...") and find you look absolutely ridiculous in it. I always thought it would be risky to go out in the classic horseman's duster that was one of Peterman's hottest items when he started the business 12 years ago. Even if you look like...
...Writer Orlean, at any rate, is a superb tour guide through the loony subculture of Florida's orchid fanciers, and a writer whose sentences can glow like rare blooms, as when she reports that the air above an orchid swamp's sinkholes "has the slack, drapey weight of wet velvet...
...chart is my pair of Bang & Olufsen Form 2 headphones ($100). As someone who commutes by rail and therefore needs to drown out the train shouters on their cellular phones, I lusted after this pair of headphones for my Walkman for years. Comfortable as velvet earmuffs, the Form 2s deliver a luscious, fat sound. Plus they keep me at the forefront of style: the sleek, flat headphones are in the Museum of Modern Art's collection...
Monty claims that as a young boy, wearing a wig, he was Elizabeth Taylor's stunt double for National Velvet. Larry says Monty did no stunt riding, and the book Liz, by C. David Heymann, lists Billy Cartlidge as Taylor's stunt double. Monty also claims that James Dean, a great buddy, lived with him before the filming of East of Eden. But, no, it seems; Dean's pal was Tony Vargas, according to Renebome and Vargas himself. California rancher Bill Dorrance, an early teacher of horse whispering, was "like a grandfather to me," Monty writes. But Dorrance...