Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a gawky young illustrator arrived at the Post one day bearing a large rectangle draped in black velvet, a staffer asked what he had. "It's uh-it's uh painting," he stammered. Indeed it was; the Post had found Norman Rockwell. Over the next 45 years, his hundreds of sentimental but sharply observed cover paintings-boy scouts and barbershops, April-fool jokes and baseball games-would come to represent the essence of the Post itself...
...have gone one step further in trying to be novel and have designed menus for clients on every conceivable material: wood, leather, plastic, burlap, suede, velvet, etc. The most unique was a menu for a medical convention-printed on the back of a large mustard plaster...
...that, much of the interior was unfinished. Hallways were cluttered with unpacked cartons; in some staterooms, naked bulbs dangled from wires, handles and racks fell off in passengers' hands, and plumbing and soundproofing were erratic. Though some of the finished public rooms were beautifully furnished in suede and velvet, many rooms showed misguided efforts to cater to an unhappy estimate of American tastes. Decor ran from motel modern to floating Howard Johnson's. One Cunard official tried to explain the limp bill of fare: "What we are trying for is decent middle-class food. We are not pretending...
...copy on the jacket offers the guidance that a relates a day in the life of Ondine, one of the exotics who lounge in Warhol's Velvet Underground. There is the added information that the day begins with Ondine ingesting a quantity of amphetamine, ends 24 hours later "in an orgy of exhausted confusion...
...designer and director for theater and opera in Europe. Last week, at the opening of the La Scala opera season in Milan, his latest paintings hung as backdrops for his own new production of Verdi's Don Carlos. Ponelle's dark, brooding sets, painted on black velvet to emphasize the somber mood of the drama, suggested El Greco canvases come to life. The naturalistic direction he gave to the expert cast assembled by Conductor Claudio Abbado-and headed by Bulgarian Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov-gave psychological unity to Verdi's knotty tale of neuroticism and political intrigue...