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...room was transformed into a setting fit for Hollywood by a profusion of red velvet curtains with gold tassels, orange lighting and a three-dimensional representation of the Harvard shield. Two shows were taped consecutively and will appear on HBO on February...
...closest he came to the rococo sparkle of English portraiture was in his 1767 portrait of Nicholas Boylston, Boston's biggest luxury-goods importer: blue-chinned, sharp-eyed and relaxed in his morning panoply of damask dressing gown, unbuttoned waistcoat (showing the careless ease of the gentleman) and velvet turban. His ships ply the sea behind him, and his arm rests on an account ledger. As art historian Paul Staiti observes in an excellent catalog essay, Copley's clients liked his style because it was so embedded in the world of substance and inventories that had made them what they...
Opening her September 23rd performance with Bracht's "Alabama Song," her husky alto did more to suggest masculinity than femininity. And yet Faithfull looked serenely womanly, with long snow-white hair, red lips and black velvet gloves...
...addition, a lane of Holyoke Street was cordoned off with velvet ropes to allow skaters to travel safely from City Sports to the car-free area around the MAC, Murphy said...
...such that Blankley has been known to light up using the tiny flames under chafing dishes at early-morning press breakfasts. For Blankley, the relaxed smoking rules signify not a smelly sort of revenge, as Democrats view it, but a return to a more civilized era, redolent of Edwardian velvet jackets. "I'm hopeful that as a society we are returning to the habits of an earlier day when good manners ruled rather than dogma," he says. Antismoking rules are unnecessary, he believes, if "we use common sense and decency." Even President Clinton last week was unrepentant about puffing...