Word: zebra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zebra in the Kitchen, though it sounds like the tale of an equine in an apron, is actually about a hill-country boy (Jay North, TV's Dennis the Menace) who loves a puma named Sunshine. When Jay's folks move into the city, Jay stows away Sunshine in the back of the family truck. The cat ends up in a cramped zoo, where Jay becomes errand boy just long enough to snitch Keeper Andy Devine's keys and set loose lions, tigers, bears, apes, zebras, snakes, elephants, an ostrich and Sunshine upon a terrified populace...
...galleries sit hamburgers the size of Volkswagens. Here is a comfy zebra-striped chair draped with a leopard coat marked by the gallery PLEASE DON'T SIT. And right there behind the gallerygoer is a plaster facsimile of a real person looking like a petrified floorwalker. Coke bottles protrude from the canvas; TV sets roar from the painted surface; neon lights glow like theater marquees. A plethora of real objects has been swept into art, and art has walked right out of the frame into the living room...
...Zany Zebra. Kuku and Kaplan are not alone. Bergdorf Goodman has a zany "zebra" dress made from Italian lamb and Russian broadtail. The black broadtail stripes are individually cut and hand-sewn into the white lamb, all for $2,700. Pour l'après ski, Revillon has whipped up a horizontally stitched chinchilla jacket with matching chinchilla boots...
...Looking Glass War is either a good book with serious flaws or a bad one with unusual virtues, and I don't think it matters much which side one takes on this zebra-and-its-stripes question. Either way the promise that John Le Carre displayed in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is reaffirmed but not fulfilled by his second spy novel. It's uncharitable to suggest that money and lavish praise have hurt Le Carre artistically, but after the success of his last book he could have written the Doty Report and still have sold...
...even with the plumage, the gimlet-eyed audience of buyers and editors was short on applause. Most of them had just flown in from Italy, where they were more charmed. In Rome, designers went black and white with an op twist-in everything from Valentino's sequined, zebra-topped lounging pajamas to Fabiani's chiaroscuro plaid evening coat. In Florence, Emilio Pucci produced print tights under an Empire dress slit to the armpits on each side. And Italians seemed intent on depluming the bird world too, particularly ostriches, who had better hide more than their heads...