Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beige, green and pink Tiziani suit. Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, entertains in a shocking pink Adele Simpson suit. Jacqueline Kennedy has ordered a beige-and-white wool suit from Valentino; Barbara Paley, wife of CBS Chairman William S. Paley, has ordered hers in black velvet...
...years of pants wearing, have managed to add little more than cuffs and a crease, women in the past few years have rung changes beyond belief. Trousers come belled or straight, hip hugging or waist level. Materials range from daytime wool, gabardine or leather to evening silk, velvet, lame and brocade. Jackets are single-or double-breasted, come to the hips, to the top of the thighs, to the knees...
Opera is enjoyable, she says, "but I could have sung six concerts in the time it took to rehearse Julius Caesar." In a recital, the rich tonalities of her deep velvet voice come to full bloom, lending breadth and a somber ecstasy to a Mahler song, a wry twist to a Hugo Wolf lied...
Inside, acres of red velvet, a grand staircase, and sheer size combine to give you the impression that you are in an opera house. But blocks of shiny white marble, pounds of gilt, and too many twinkling crystal chandeliers try to convince you that you are in New York's newest and biggest apartment building lobby...
Soprano Marsh was scheduled to sing again, but she developed tonsillitis. When the malady lingered on, a hasty call went out to Veronica Tyler. Arriving from New York a bare hour ahead of time with her yellow gown over her arm, Tyler swept onstage with complete aplomb and velvet voice to repeat two of the arias she had sung in her previous appearance with the orchestra. "These young singers and musicians are great-no pretensions, natural, enthusiastic, no pettiness," marveled Orchestra Manager Thomas Perry. Shrugged Baltimore-born Tyler: "I've learned to relax, and I love to sing...