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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...
Audacious Initiatives. One artist led to another. Poet-Painter André Verdet ordered a sport coat of grey velvet curtain material. Picasso took one look at Verdet's coat and was off to see the tailor. The two men hit it off instantly, and after Sapone had cooked Picasso some Neapolitan spaghetti, the artist gave him three lithographs and an order to "sew something...
...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...