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...Gallery of Modern Art, the show was all Salvador Dali. To please his favorite contemporary artist, Hartford has filled his museum from top to bottom with 375 items of Dali's hitand-miss genius. But it was Dali himself who won best-of-show at a gala black-tie lecture attended by critics, socialites and an ocelot on a leash. Sporting his silver-handled cane, Dali held the audience in breathless amusement as he dashed off a sketch of a horseman to the tempo of world-renowned Guitarist Manitas de Plata and his flamen co-booted partner-while...
...occasion. On view were his latest works, featuring a spatterdash Homage to Meissonier, which most certainly would not please Meissonier, a 19th century French academic who painted romances of gladiators and Napoleonic battles. Also from 1965's crop: Salvador Dali in the Act of Painting Gala in the Apotheosis of the Dollar in Which You Can See on the Left Marcel Duchamp Masquerading as Louis XIV Behind a Vermeerian Cur tain Which Actually Is the Invisible Face but Monumental of Hermes by Praxiteles. It covers quite a bit of art history in a style that describes Dali himself...
...vited to turn over their summer homes when they do not plan to use them. As for businesses, airlines are asked to give away empty seats on long-distance flights, laundries to volunteer a few weeks of free washing - all taxdeductible. Then everything is auctioned off at a gala dinner attended by the city's best people...
...inaugural gala and they were all there, from a pride of Rockefellers to Mrs. Fred Eberstadt in her Yves St. Laurent black mink-and-vinyl coat. And loving it. "Beautiful," exclaimed Saks Fifth Avenue President Adam Gimbel. "Glorious," said onetime White House Arts Adviser August Heckscher. "The most beautiful theater," exclaimed Hollywood Producer Otto Preminger. "Marvelous and effective," said Playwright Alan Jay Lerner. So, last week, with a popping of flashbulbs and champagne corks, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, latest unit to join Manhattan's Lincoln Center, swung into orbit with its opening production, Georg Buechner's 130-year...
Grandes Domes & Cops. Two days later Jackie made a gala appearance in Boston as honorary chairman of the Golden Trumpet Ball, a $150-a-ticket benefit for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was her first such acceptance in two years, and Boston's newspapers had splashed all over Page One the specifics of her arrival. When her car pulled up at Symphony Hall, thousands of shouting, shoving people packed the sidewalk. Mounted policemen desperately maneuvered their horses to hold back the crowd. Looking slightly frightened, Jackie hurried inside, while cops used sheer force to keep the excited mob from...