Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates before the one-and-only turns up. "Finally, about the time I opened in Jerico-Jim a little over a year ago, I did find exactly the right teacher, Clair Gelda. She told me, 'You must be careful not to push to the point of losing the wonderful velvet on your voice.'" This "velvet," which is readily apparent in the restrained opening of "Feeling Good" in Roar of the Greasepaint, should not be confused with the quite different, if attractive, breathy tone characteristic of Belafonte or the late Nat King Cole...
...ugly duckling is getting the full beauty treatment by manufacturers intent on covering the whole market. The thermal now comes in wool, rayon, Dacron, Creslan and Acrilan, as well as the popular cotton, and in shades like curry, persimmon, melon, hollyhock, sand and avocado. It may be bound in velvet or nylon suede, patterned in flowers and leaves, checks and tweeds, stripes and plaids...
...pounding talk and precipitate action. "What I do," he says, "I do after lengthy consultation. A chief of state cannot ignore other voices." Last week, in his first annual message to Congress, Leoni stood for almost three hours in Caracas' capitol building and demonstrated the effects of his velvet glove...
...Those Pistols Down. Leoni's velvet glove even extends to the war on Castroite terrorists. Last December he pushed through a new law that gives convicted terrorists the option of going to jail, being confined to their home areas, or leaving Venezuela altogether. Thus encouraged to give up, a number of tired, hungry revolutionaries have turned themselves...
...ladies showed a tendency to linger near the pictures that best harmonized with their clothes. Collector Barbara Jakobson flitted among the black and white opticals, seeming to appear and disappear in a skin-tight jump suit with ostrich-feather cuffs under a "cage" of black chiffon, latticed with black velvet. Another black and white effect, frequently mistaken for a painting when it was standing still, was the calfskin coat by Furrier Jacques Kaplan, stenciled by Op Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz in a dotty pattern that focused disturbingly on Mrs. Lee Lombard's pretty kidneys...