Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, in a talk with a Western visitor, Sukarno revealed the naivete that from the beginning has marked his dealings with the Communists. "You talk of wanting independence from foreign intervention," said the visitor, "but the Communist Party is not a national Indonesian party-it represents a foreign power." The President flushed in anger, clenched his fist and replied: "If I learn and can prove that Indonesia's Communists are being actively supported from outside this country, I will crush them...
...play of violent action or of individual detachment. A stale retired professor (Serebriakov), his young wife (Elena), and the daughter (Sonia), brother (Vanya), and mother of his first wife live cramped lives on a faded Russian estate. A visitor, the overworked local doctor (Astrov) wanders in and out of the household. Sonia loves the doctor, who is unaware of her as a woman. Vanya, who feels oppressed and trapped, shares with the doctor a love for Elena, who is quite miserable with her old and pompous husband. The doctor dreams of forestry and the future, yet sees his education...
Despite their dependence on private customers, Paris' couturiers are apt to be haughty. An American visitor must show her passport before a showing, to assure the couturier that she is not a pirate in disguise. If she balks at the price, the vendeuse is apt to display a cool hauteur. "When they hesitate, I always advise them to buy elsewhere," says Dior's chief vendeuse. "Remorse is better than regret...
...visitor is to be in Paris only a short time, she is stripped to her bra and girdle (preferably to her skin, but some are bashful). Measurements are taken in every conceivable direction, with especial attention to the size and disposition of the bosom, and a form is made to her shape. At Maison Dior, stuffed dummies are piled tidily atop closets in ghostly and lumpy array, all carefully anonymous but numbered...
Such Parisiennes, numbering perhaps 7,000 to 10,000 in all, are the couturier's most exacting critics. They live in a closed, intimate world, scarcely visible to the passing visitor, slipping silently across Paris in their limousines, disappearing behind the iron gates of Paris' aristocratic and ancient mansions. With them, manners and grooming are topmost; with enough of them, one of the couturier's necessary secrets is who pays for the lady's dress. An elegant Frenchwoman will spend hours searching for the exact shade of stocking to go with a certain dress, spend days...