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FROM Ocoya, 90 miles out of Chicago, U.S. 66 slices its way southwestward toward St. Louis through seas of hybrid feed corn. Blackbirds wing over the blowing tassels, plucking caterpillars from among the leaves and blowing silk, oblivious to the round-the-clock rumble of the highway. In this season the land is still hot, the air humid; the prairie wind sears rather than cools, and storms roll in from the west in minutes. Along the four-lane divided highway, humming tires throw up white crushed rock from the shoulders to nick a windshield or chip paint from a fender...
...protégée (Susan Anspach). Up moves the camera to a wall of pictures. There are the young siblings, smiling, optimistic, untouched. On an adjacent wall, the children are grown, the faces strained and damned, the father satanically peering from behind a flowing beard, all silk and grosgrain. That interlude is album riffling, not film making. Such short cuts summon memories less of Robert's early years than of Cornel Wilde's, when he played Freddie Chopin in A Song to Remember...
...Marc Bohan is every bit as enraptured with the languorous look. Bohan softened his necklines with bows and scarf ties; and his hiplines had a series of stitched pleats that flattened first, then flared out. Deep colors glow like Tiffany stained glass; fabrics are light, jerseys, crepes and silk velvets. And again and again, capes -hooded in suede, lined in fur, long, loose, swinging...
...voiles, crepes and chiffons fitted tightly over the bosom, fluttered into pleats at the hips; gently fitted shirt-coats unbuttoned to reveal sinewy sheaths; appliques, borrowed from Matisse collages, formed butterflies on blousy knickers, birds in flight on a blue suede coat. The St. Laurent way for evening: sheer silk chemises, re-embroidered with tiny seed beads or baby sequins, delicate as veils and every bit as enticing...
...green across the counter. The more she pays and the smaller her purchase, the happier we can be. That proves that she has almost conquered need for good. Just a little, ever so little more and it will be done. Ten million trillion zillion dollars for a jeweled silk-and-leather nail file case. Phew! We're almost there. Very soon we'll never need anything more ever again. We have solved necessity and in those very stores, the richest and the plushest ones, we are about to become God Himself...