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...year ago today the bill's supporters massed in Gardner Auditorium in the State House to begin to work for the bill's passage. The bill became a prime trial for the people's right to govern themselves, and the book reflects basic liberal hopes and idealism. A jacket blurb quotes George McGovern...
...influential Tailor & Cutter. Prince Charles, writes Dallas in the current issue, "follows the cult of shabbiness." For instance: the prince has taken to the fashionably wider tie without realizing that it is out of proportion to the narrow lapels and boxy shape of his '50s-style jacket. "As for his trousers, at the bottom they are the slim shape that every young man was demanding a decade ago, but at the top theyare as baggy as an old man's-inelegant at both ends." Dallas admits, however, that perhaps the prince is consciously trying to "adjust...
Melville's career was incredibly uneven. The creator of Moby Dick was also the author of White-Jacket, Typee, Omoo, and Pierre; or the Ambiguities, and the poet of Battle-Pieces was also the poet of Clarel, an amazingly inept pseudo-epic on Biblical themes. Warren's edition of Melville is a priceless edition to Melville scholarship, for the continuity it brings to the author's work, the way it integrates his fiction and verse in a coherent outline. At Warren's hands, the ambiguous Melville begins to make sense...
...hours with Arthur ("Boy") Capel, a wealthy English polo player whose lavish gifts of jewels served as the keystones of Coco's astonishing collection, and whose blazer -lent to the designer on a chilly day at the polo grounds-became the source of her famous box jacket. From the Duke of Westminster. Chanel's most renowned amour, came more jewels; these she had copied, setting off the costume-jewelry vogue. With a personal fortune rumored by then to be close to $15 million-most of it the result of the pungent success of Chanel No. 5 -the designer...
...Coco sprang no surprises, only refinements on what was her classic look: the short, straight, collarless jacket, the slightly flaring skirt, and hems that never budged from mid-knee length. Wearing the broad-brimmed Breton hat that was her hallmark, her scissors hanging from a ribbon around her neck, and her four fingers held firmly together in spite of severe arthritis, she would feel for defects. Working directly on the model, she often picked a dress apart with the point of her scissors, complaining that it was unwearable. Her fashion empire, at her death, brought in over $160 million...