Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
Each year Sarmi makes two trips to Switzerland, France and Italy to select his fabrics. He has the lace re-embroidered with silver and gold, the chiffon treated to produce a raised velvet pattern, the dress wools interwoven with rows of iridescent paillettes. Often he designs his own: one year it was photographs of raindrops screened onto fine silk, another time it was magnified butterfly wings...
Wyler gets results by demanding them-over and over and over again. Actors assigned to him describe the experience as "living in the torture chamber." Greer Garson tried to soften him up in advance by sending him a pair of velvet gloves. Bette Davis got so mad she walked off the set for a week. Olivia de Havilland all but heaved a suitcase at Wyler after he ordered the umpteenth take of the same scene; yet all these films were hits. "I've resisted the temptation of being a good fellow," says Wyler, 62. "I don't care...
...most engaging new celebrity in Washington last week was a 320-year-old boy dressed in a grey-brown tunic and a plumed velvet hat. In a chastely simple lobby of the National Gallery of Art, where the Mona Lisa hung last year on its visit to the U.S., Rembrandt's delicate 251 inch by 22 inch portrait of his son Titus was unveiled for a six-week-long stay before moving on to its permanent home in the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art lovers flocked to see the study that Rembrandt lovingly painted shortly after...
...notables as Navy Secretary Paul Nitze, Dutch Ambassador Carl Schurmann, Pittsburgh Art Patron Paul Mellon and William Walton, chairman of the Federal Government's Commission of Fine Arts. Then Titus was ceremoniously brought from the gallery's basement, and while flashbulbs popped and TV cameras whirred, hung before red velvet in its place of honor. Yet, for all the trouble and cost he had incurred to acquire Titus, the lean, craggy six-footer with the deepset eyes and anguished look clearly did not savor the glare of publicity...