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...jowly, owlish face; his sparse white hair is slicked back, and his eyebrows, frozen like question marks above his eyes, seem to ask, "Who me, cause a fuss?" A sometime Sunday-school teacher, he is fond of saying, "Well, bless your heart," his voice a velvet bass carried by a Carolina drawl. But in an instant, a glint appears in his eye as he hatches yet another plan to tie the Senate in knots. Meet the other Jesse Helms, the wily parliamentary terrorist who has blocked civil rights legislation, held ambassadorships hostage and undermined treaties...
...discovered Celestine's glass casket was empty, authorities began tailing a couple of strangers who had driven through town. Within two days police followed the pair to the remains, stashed some 40 miles away. The figure of Celestine, still wearing miter and robes, was found lying on its red velvet cushion but concealed in a plywood box crammed into a burial niche in a local cemetery. The miscreants escaped. Back in L'Aquila, the bells rang again, this time in celebration...
...Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, English Chairman Gary Waller assigns his classes the recent cult film Blue Velvet for comparisons with works by T.S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats...
Opening night at the Hasty Pudding Show is what happens when the cast invites its tony friends over to join in the fun. Those well-scrubbed rich kids in cute little velvet suits nowadays are wearing tuxedos with bow ties rakishly angled. The Moxie has given way to a drink that pops before it fizzes. Anybody who's anybody among the campus bourgeoisie wouldn't miss it. It seems like anybody who's been anybody among the campus bourgeoisie since the Class of 1925 wouldn't miss...
Today Lacroix has a Proustian sense of his childhood. He was taken up by a little band of mini-aesthetes: "We were like dandies, snobbish and arrogant. We might show up in green velvet suits and pink shirts and read Wilde -- anything we thought was daring." Christian was taxed with designing costumes for their amateur shows. He traces his enduring preoccupation with the turn of the century to this early research; at one point he plotted out a season-by-season directory of changes in the minutiae of fin-de-siecle fashion...