Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most frolicsome funeral in memory. Through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park wended a legion of hippies, the lads bedizened with beads and scrapes, the lasses with furs and long velvet dresses. Then came the casket, a 15-ft. grey box labeled "Summer of Love," and behind it an equally outsized stretcher on which reclined a hirsute "corpse," clutching a zinnia to its breast-symbol of the death of the flower children. Television cameras ogled the scene as the mourners gathered around the casket and filled it with charms, peacock feathers, orange peels, bread (both edible and negotiable), flags...
...Queen of Buganda, who stayed behind when Freddie fled, to $70,500 for the Omukama of Bunyoro. Obote has confiscated, however, most of the splendid trappings of royalty. He sent a dump truck to cart off the Omugabe of Ankole's throne, his velvet ceremonial robes, his gilt crowns and his fat royal drums of buckskin. Last week the aging, potbellied Omukama of Bunyoro watched sadly as his regalia of silken robes and black ostrich-feather headdresses were taken away to be mothballed in the basement of a government building. With baggage packed, he now waits to move...
Stoned. Audiences on both sides of the Irish Sea find The Dubliners' pandemonium somehow endearing. Their record of Seven Drunken Nights, a woozy chronicle of just what its name implies, has passed the quarter-million sales mark, with Black Velvet Band just behind. Two weeks ago, a sellout crowd of 25,000 at Dublin's National Stadium matched the group roar for roar, and last week The Dubliners headed an all-Irish bill at London's hallowed Albert Hall...
...black gabardine suit that shows the current new softer lines, with a short, gently flared skirt, and a jacket that features a clerical collar and a row of gold buttons. The model wore an accompanying stole thrown back over one shoulder, and a black velvet beret. St. Laurent charged Ohrbach's $1,800-perhaps twice what a single noncommercial customer would pay for one of the dozen or so other models of the same suit made by the designer. At Dior, Ohrbach's picked half a dozen choice-and expensive-items, including a loosely shaped $1,400 black...
Cracking Rifles. The first two productions bore him out. On opening night, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov had a cast of 280 bedecked in pounds of furs, brocade, velvet, gems and clattering swords. Czar Boris' throne room in the last act was a breathtaking showcase of Byzantine opulence, with richly colored frescoes on the multidomed ceiling and an elaborately carved golden throne beneath two 800-lb. chandeliers. In Prokofiev's War and Peace, which ran for four hours the following night and called for 40 soloists even in the condensed version, some scenes were framed...