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...strong and stretchable, and bonded fabrics, which have a backing sealed to the cloth, making lining unnecessary. Bonding also makes laces and other ravelly materials as easy to sew as calico. Besides an ever-expanding market of synthetics, textilers now offer fake furs, machine-washable woolens, washable crushproof velvet and even washable suede. Some materials can set the connoisseur back more than $100 a yard, but she is apt to find them a bargain. Says Manhattan Socialite Belkis Ertegun: "I have a hunger for clothes. I want something new every minute, and yet I think it's criminal...
...painted no landscapes. no buildings, no ruins, and hardly any animals beyond St. Peter's rooster and a fly perched on a blind beggar's hurdy-gurdy; the sole object of his scrutiny was man and woman and their intimate possessions - the texture and sheen of velvet, the transparency of a glass, or (as in the Wrightsman Magdalen) the exact difference in the highlights that a tallow flame creates on the bone of a skull and on the grayed sea luster of a pearl. But La Tour was not a painter of still lifes with figures. A phrase...
...Francisco Bay near the home of Bride Daria Halprim, who starred in Zabriskie Point. The music began as a composition for synthesizer, ram's horn, flute, and a Yemenite trumpet recorded especially for the wedding. Then, to the melody of a flute song, Daria, in a purple velvet Navajo dress, walked to the bridal canopy designed by her father, Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin. After the ceremonial crushing of the wineglass under Hopper's foot, everybody danced a hora to the traditional Hava Nagila-arranged for guitar and Congo drum...
...Lola was what the Victorians called "a superb piece." She had skin like a Dresden shepherdess, hair like a black velvet shawl, eyes that flashed and flickered like sapphires in firelight. When a man got her Irish up, she cut him across the face with a riding whip. She once fired a pistol at a disappointing lover. What Lola wanted, Lola...
...major reason for their willingness to go along with the military's ironhanded but velvet-gloved rule is Turkey's economic prosperity. Exports (primarily tobacco, textiles, hazelnuts and cotton) have reached a record high, and so has the balance of payments surplus. Tourism will set new records this year despite inadequate hotel space, and a massive suspension bridge is being built across the Bosporus at Istanbul. Social life in the cities is gay, albeit a trifle restricted. Ankara hostesses, aware that under martial law no one is allowed on the city's streets after...