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Determined that Sullivan's name-dropping needlepoint should go on, Angell combed the year's headlines for worthy toastees, borrowed (like Sullivan) a few names from friends and wove them into Sullivanian tetrameter. Angell-a short-story writer, bestselling baseball author (The Summer Game) and stepson of E.B. White-aims good cheer at "Helmut Schmidt, Kenneth Tynan/ And the Rev. Rep. (D., Mass.) Robert Drinan, " and offers "A puppy each for Stacy Reach/ And Marvellous Nadia Comaneci." He exhorts: "Come, Willie Morris! Come, Maury Wills/ Make with the tonsils for Beverly Sills, "and wishes that "the new year...
...Washington visitor with time to wander in the cathedral this summer will find continual surprises. More than a thousand kneeling cushions, each in elaborately individualized needlepoint. Stone tributes not just to biblical heroes but to Sören Kierkegaard, David Livingstone, Albert Schweitzer and Jane Addams. Even a carved snake in the choir with a caricatured head of Hitler. A space-age window in which a sliver of a moon rock is encased. On the roof, growling gargoyles, and on the lawn, an oversized gilded bronze statue of Washington astride a horse...
...NEEDLEPOINT GALLERY OF PATTERNS FROM THE PAST by Phyllis Kluger. 191 pages. Knopf. $15. No mere woolgathering, the craft of needlepoint combines a meditative activity with the hard-core work ethic. Time is casually suspended stitch by stitch, but in the end something palpable gets done. Phyllis Kluger's stitches in time span nearly 5,000 years-from the arts of ancient Egypt and Byzantium to Renaissance Europe and early America. All are shown in full-color photos as well as instructional graph patterns. Kluger's historical commentary and analysis of her motifs provide an enriching dimension...
...leads, like being a silly TV cop, if there is a man there to support them." She even tried quitting. For most of the past five years she has been living in England with Second Husband John Hopkins, an English playwright, playing housemum to her two daughters and doing needlepoint. She has returned, she says, because "I discovered that acting is what I do best." The Hopkins family now lives in suburban Chappaqua, N.Y. Her next role, as a woman who becomes sexually involved with another woman, has been written for her by her husband. The practical side of Shirley...
...trying her touch at painting, fabric design and collages in recent years, Gloria, 51, now hopes to market some of her artistic know-how in a new magazine. The quarterly, which is modestly called Gloria Vanderbilt Designs for Your Home, promises to supply how-to tips in painting, crochet, needlepoint, embroidery, quilting, knitting, rug making, sewing and other skills for ambitious homemakers. All of which may help even Creative Director Vanderbilt to pick up a new stitch or two. "I haven't a clue about how to do needlepoint," she confessed last week. "And sewing is a mystery...