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PlACET
HE DOSSIER OF WASHINGTON COMMENT Master Watchmakers and jewellers
~Ol't'
10h lIes as Usual: Ziegler alive and well and living in
pra:.S.ears, once Reagan's guru, now Virginia...Rosemary Woods looking
G tlclng law, being wooed by Don great. .. Victor Lasky laboring to meet
t~aharn to write political stuff for deadline on Ford book ...Judy Lewis
lVash'
lith Ington Post...Nancy Reagan, real estating ... Dick Coe, being
Car~ugh. set in Middleburg, lonely for deservedly heaped with honors, is
1
100 Orma friends ... Mississippi now writing a book ..Tommy Curtis inter-
lectuS~all for Hodding Carter. He's viewing for Metromedia network ...
With r~g at AU ... has a book contract Renaissance man Joe McLellan cover-
Pia' arpers ... Sen. Stone's opponent ing Vienna Opera for WashPost ...
~c~ng dirty hardball ... Church and Helen Hayes' name now on National
QObb~vern. ~till in trouble ...Linda lobby. She's fighting to preserve the
CL s qUitting ERA to help make Helen Hayes Theatre from the
lIUck
JOh governor ... Dr. James J. wrecker's ball in Gotham ...Larry King
N llson assistant secretary of the
a bitching about Whorehouse flick but-
alt;: ~nder Nixon, is planning an chering ... Charlie and Algernon windy
/))0 native Inaugural Ball at the Ar- blast by Times' critic has angered
lie:: 2~O.OO a couple object: Prayer. Roger Stevens...True Davis hopes The
keYn trYlOg to get Billy Graham as Black Stallion will bring the kiddies to
Otero
The Horse Show ... Kathleen Beer
presented her painting of Prince
}oealing: Philip, driving a coach and four, to
undin . Contemporary time.
the N g. IS not the only problem facing HRH ... Randy Reed's daughter,
they' atJonal Symphony...The efforts Pamela, married to Rick Amendola Rich, ribbed 18K gold.
by thr~ making are being undermined ...Two Mrs. Reeds attended ... The The case and the dial.
Illent el~ OWn Public Relations Depart- Cloisters in Georgetown attracting Handsomely complimented
Stead' ow a~out making friends in- trendy set. .. 25% already sold ... Gar- by the black lizard strap.
Of
and N enemIes? Splitsville for Dick finckel's going English ... opening new Masterfully precise.
dip I :ncy Haase and June (Popeye- Aquascutum shop... Curtain down on Handcrafted in Switzerland
one ~Y~ and Tom Jackson ...There's Beverly Malatesta's Palazzo by Piaget.
after elhlt~ House duo waiting until boutique...Jane Evans, new prexy at
~ader ectlons ... Hobart Taylor-Carol Mt. Vernon College ... She's a Ph.D in
ll1anda~~rger was first in Marine Com- Chinese literature.
think' t s house ...The Taylors are
Bahalng of spending lots of time in Foreign Intrigue:
·'.Ch~as. Empire Striking Back Ticketholders to the Meridian House
SOtheb fisty's .
commg to town to give Ball scrambling for dinner seats at the
SChub/ a run for their money ...The Russian Embassy ... It's a first time for
for ~ t~ke-over as booking agent the Russians ... Meridian House has a
I< enc atlonal still rankling new angel. He's Robert J. Buckley, of
to been ... Upper balcony of National
ll1inim touted for students at bare
Allegheny Ludlum. "I'll give them
anything they want," he says ... Leila
q)ieftYr·~art Jewelers, Inc.
SUltantU~... International business con- Hakki, pretty wife of Egypt's press at- Diamond Brokers • Appraisers
teleph eo Welt's book is literally a tache, hooked on cigars ... Big Cubans.
llekin One book for Americans visiting Monday-Friday 10 to 5:30
lliair ~ ..Mary Schneck, manager of Bits n Pieces: 1710 M Street, N.W.
COSt of ~~s~ couldn't keep up with the Informed sources report the new public Washington, DC 20036
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teplace:ent .gave her ... she quit...her million this year ... Concern is over
..l1lbtos ent. IS Ca~ol Benefield ...Myles whether the taxpayer will be subsidiz-
e
b
})~ckin' SInged m the eye at his Pig ing this commercial loss ... Moonies in-
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..J. C - ~sts the Ray Howars and the groups like Hillel and Christian Major Credit Cards Accepted
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Dossier/October 1980/7

9. Art &Artists
WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS
NA PROFESSIONAL FOOTING
I f you have not recently been to the
WPA, otherwise known as the
Yo ~ashington Project for the Arts,
U will barely recognize the place. The
~ondemned building on G Street has be-
d?rne light and airy. Even the once-
nlsmal performing space on its third
'W0~r ~as been spruced up. The mood at
g A IS upbeat with a schedule of pro-
pr~ms to match its new direction. Occu-
~Ing the uncertain position between a
th~seu~ and a commercial art gallery,
lh project addresses itself not only to
. e needs of "disenfranchised" Wash-
Ington .
o artists, the emerging talent in
o~r .community, but to nationally rec-
irnnl2ed artists whose work is too exper-
ci ~ntal to meet the criteria of com mer-
O;t galleri~s or the conceptual precepts
"he.capltal's museums.
we With Our accent on the temporary,
ge/ an do crazy things," says the ener-
Co IC Al Nodal who has steered the
an~rse of the WPA for a year and a half
irn ,saved the alternative space from
24 mlnent demise. With a program of Ed Mayer's Spiral with Two Triangles-Uneven Height, 1980, a site-specific project, was
d exhibitions_some of them out- one of the installations at WPA's exhibit-StackingIRiggingIBinding-guest curated by
OOfS, smack in the middle of down- Hirshhorn's Howard Fox.
One of th .
e most spectacular outdoor site projects is Overture - G Stnngs by Nade Haley, located at 12th and G Streets, N. W.
Dos ier/Oclober /980/9

10. town Washington-the visual arts are
served as well as the performing arts.
During the upcoming season the
WPA's grand performing space will be
enlivened by dancers, poets and theater
groups every weekend.
Judging by its stunning experimental
exhibition of sculptures "Stacking/
Rigging/Binding," curated by the
Hirshhorn's gifted Howard Fox this
summer, the quality as well as the risks
involved should be anything but rou-
tine. Fox's selection of ten contempo-
rary artists who set out to explore the
limits of their humble materials (mostly
wood) by straining them to the break-
ing point, suggested intriguing esthetic
perspectives. Given the properties of
impermanence, like Ed Mayer's phan-
tasmal labyrinth of stacked wood lath
or Thomas Watcke's environment of itt·
precariously structured two-by-fours, Thomas Watcke's Untitled 1980, a 5 I
the ambiguous constructivist vocabu- specific sculpture exhibited at WPA in IllY'
lary, probing the relationship between
time and space, mass and gravity, force o
and constraint, took on-not unlike the Krebs is without doubt the most inn '
leaning Tower of Pisa-unexpected, vative entry. Also included w.i1l b:
disquieting emotional overtones. neon show, possibly involv~ng
stores along G Street, OrgaOl zed II
y
Top-notch guest curators playa vital
part in the WPA's programming. Wal- Olivia Georgia, and a wall 'p~inting ~b
ter Hopps, the California wunderkind Dupont Circle by Sam Gl1ham. Bw.
of the arts, who brought glory and Wade's giant "World's Largest co
havoc in equal measure to the Corcoran boy Boots" the 40-foot high. structure
, d reo
and the National Collection of Fine of pipes , wire mesh and paInte uen'
Arts, is organizing an exhibition of im- thane foam on G and 12th streets eY t
agist sculpture. Mary Swift, current tually caught the eye of a deve1opme~
chairman of the board of directors, and company from Columbia, Maryla n s;
stripe painter Gene Davis, are talents and it has proved to be the mOne
who joined in April. Along with a show rewarding art site sculpture. ~or
of the work of "Young Washington developers purchased the bo?ts op.
Artists," visitors will be treated to $40,000 and placed them in ~helr sh rt
b
photography from Los Angeles and ping center in San Anto~lO. RO';n'
Texas. Newman's homage to "Pierre L
shing'
Al Nodal tries to strike a balance be- fant," a sandblasted map 0 f Wa !'la'
tween showcasing home-grown talent, ton, D.C., funded in part by the 328
which accounts for 60 percent of the tional Endowment for the Arts ~t. Is as
programming, and the works of artists New York Avenue, easily quahfl e
from other places. By bringing the the most subtle and beautiful. . oY a'
"vital flux of the avant garde into a city The art book store is another Inn nO f
.
like Washington" Nodal hopes to keep tion. By no means an accumulatl O it
the promising younger artists from expensive coffee-table art bOOkSj eS
moving to New York. features books by the artists thems e Yge
The open studio which enables the in small editions. With each pa e
public to visit the studios of local ar- designed with special love and carr;
tists, will be repeated. The WPA pro- these books are collector's items, art
vides maps. Last winter 23 artists par- ob]'ects and first-rate presents for. ag
thin .
ticipated in this successful outreach lovers and people who have every re
program aimed at a public not in the It is, of course, no accident that th: c'
habit of going to galleries and mu- is new life in the old WPA. "To be as
seums. Once more, art site projects and cessible, to be eclectic and to take of
large-scale environmental outdoor many risks as possible" is the cred.OnO
sculptures, will playa prominent part. the 30-year old Adolpha Victor~e~'
Among the five monumental three-di- Nodal. In order to keep the u.tmos t ce
mensional works, a prism piece by the ibility and provide artists With a spabe
well-known laser-beam artist Rockne where they can do what they want,
IO/October /980/Dossier

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12. e'Y 01
Al Nodal, WPA 's energetic young director chats with Jack Pitcher and Carolyn RarnS
the opening benefit this past summer.
. t s renee'
will see to it that the store next put together a board of dlrec. or d t the
door-until November on duty as an ting his wide-ranging g~a.ls alme ~ash'
election headquarters-is eventually extension of opportUnitIeS for first
converted into an artist-run artists' an- ington's budding artists. For the ard
nex, courtesy of the Department of time poets (Ethelbert Miller of H~~ 9
Housing and Urban Development. University and Carolyn peac Yt~rs
If finally after five years of existence, dancer (Maida Withers), cur)a and
the WPA has shed its last vestiges of ar- (Howard Fox, Walter HoPps. en 9
tiness and gained a professional profile theater critic Gary Glover were glV s
ces .
as an important showplace for the arts vOIce In t h e d eCISlOn-ma kl'ng pro 'ty'S
. . ..
in the nation's capital, it is thanks to the Thirdly, he built up the com~un~s II
enormous artistic energies and manag- support by initiating the "Fne~on~S
erial skills of its director and his crew of There are 60 of them noW. As a theY
SO
six who do not mind working extra for their annual donations .of $2 famed
hours. In contrast to the ego-trippers may choose a silkscreen pnnt by or 9
who drift in and out of the art scene Gene Davis or Stephen LudlumWhile
these days, anxiously guarding their photograph by Mark powers. ctio JlS
territory, Nodal, who holds an M.A. in the Friends' fund raisers and ~~e seed
museum studies from San Francisco barely make up for the loss of C fri It
State, is a true believer in openness and money provided by the ~ (00)
the democratic approach to the arts. ($30,000) and Meyer (abo~t $1 ~eral
"I like to get more people involved Foundations during the flr~t ~~ the
with our projects. You may lose some years, Nodal is encou~age b siness
power, but in terms of input everybody positive response of pnvate u asoJl.
gains," he comments. which amounted to $60,000 lasth~e pro'
By training and temperament an ar- With roughly 30 percent of .IJed bY
tist, a sculptor and a photographer, the jected budget of $170,000 pro~1 co tJI '
Cuban-born Nodal, who landed in the NEA, grants from the D. . nitie
a
Florida at the age of seven, is mission for the Arts and Hum t suf'
thoroughly conscious of the artists' and CETA he feels confident tha be
, t can
concerns. At the same time Nodal un- ficient corporate suppor
derstands that moral and financial sup- mobilized to make up the balance;side
port for a project of this scope has to be If Nodal has one real concern e fof
developed by "working at the grass from looking for a permanent hO~eitY·
roots. " the WPA, it is the loss of spon~othef
His philosophy has paid off. First of "I don't want to beco~e
all, the place, left shoddy by well- stuffy institution," he explaJOs. d the
un
intentioned dilettantes in the mistaken By the looks of things aro n wit~
mo
idea that chaotic, anti-establishment Place , which has much in com nee d not
h
chic somehow translates into creativity, New York's vibrant PSI, e DRA'f~
got a thorough overhaul. Secondly, he worry-for a while. - VIOLA
/210crober 1980lDossier

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15. §ooks by Neighbors
AYEAR's CROP OF DETECTION AND SUSPENSE
Tlila
he last twelve months have
seen a bumper crop of books that
g? bump in the night. Among the
s ny fme tales of detection and
church at Conques is a superb gold-
encrusted statue of a local martyr. An
American art historian suffering from
loss of tenure falls in with a gang of
jockey with a bionic hand. It will come
as no surprise to Dick Franci fan that
he is in deep trouble in hi new vocation
as private eye to people in the racing
I yUspense, I have singled out four for political terrorists who want the statue world. At one point he escapes an
Our
n pleasure and your peril. Read them for murky reasons of their own. Add an assortment of thugs by hitching a ride
ow, then give them for Christmas: enchanting girl guide in the abbey, in a balloon on a cross-country race.
(/n.no cent Blood by P. D. James season with the aphoristic chief of the The pilot is a man as addicted to danger
p~~l?ners, $10.95). This is the story of local gendarmes, stir with a brooding as Sid himself. Like the careening
It I,h p pa Palfrey, adopted into a sense of time in abeyance and human balloon, the story swoops over well-
,: Ish, ?onnish family but suddenly at nature on the lam and serve spicy hot. observed valleys of the human condi-
P anxIous to know who her real The gang steals the statue, but the tion. The speed with which Francis
h arents are. By a new British law she French police chief steals the show. creates character-especially in the case
as the . h of the charming ex-wife of the ex-
that h rIg t to do so. The discovery A Coat of Varnish by C. P. Snow
'at er mother is a murderess and her (Scribners, $10.95). The late Lord jockey-makes other novelists seem
Of e father a rapist is just the beginning Snow dubbed it the Establishment, and slow on the draw.
ad~ sUbtle and brilliant best seller that himself walked many of its Corridors
top s to P. D: James' reputation as the of Power. So when he writes of the Oh, yes, if you can, beg, borrow,
he woman In her field. Philippa and glossy world of British high society and steal or buy a copy of the old Signet
par mother take a small flat in a seedy politics as he does in this last novel, he paperback of an early John Le Carre,
ter~ ?f .London (the mother's prison brings credentials incomparable. A Call for the Dead. It will make you
lllUrd IS Ju.st .up),and the father of the dowager who in her day had been an realize what a splendid writer Le Carre
night;r Victim stalks their days and Edwardian enchantress is killed in her was before he choked off his clear nar-
... Belgravia town house and the suspects, rative gift with pretension and manner-
The all absolutely top drawer, are many. ism in The Honourable Schoolboy.
do Treasure of Sainte Foy by Mac-
1'h~~I~ Harris (Atheneum, $10.95). Snow builds his effects slowly but with -BURKE WILKINSON
hag' 1St h e u nus u a 1 s tor y 0 f a great skill. There is a twist in the tail of
hillogr aphic heist. The setting is the the plot that is as clever as anything he Burke Wilkinson's own credentials in the
uPl town of Conques in the spiny ever did. field of suspense include Night of the Short
of ands of L angue d oc. The centerpiece
th . Whip Hand by Dick Francis (Harper Knives and two anthologies, Cry Spy! and
e treasure in the great abbey & Row, $9.95). Sid Halley is an ex- Cry Sabotage!
Dossier/October 1980115

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17. The Educated Palate
WASHINGTON WINE CELLARS
W ine cellars in Washington are
not usually blessed with the
cold damp atmosphere of
cellars in France where the dust and
rnold-Iaden aged bottles almost makes
them seem more special. But there are
lllany individuals here who attach the
s~me importance to a good bottle of
WIne. The cellars in Washington can
range from a specially built refrigerated
room with cubicles solidly designed to
h?ld aging liquid wonders to a closet
nIche under the stairs. But the same
love of fine wine prevails and colors the
oWner's life.
This has been going on for quite
some time here. Thomas Jefferson had
a great cellar at Monticello and loved
the Champagnes and great Burgundies.
lie C?unseled Washington, Adams an.d
MadIson on selecting wines for their
use. When he was President he spent
oVer $2000 a year for wine to serve his
guests. ' The following summaries ,of
three
S' .WlOe cellars may serve as an ~n-
PI ration to the good life , and we lO-
cI d
I u e rare bottles one can buy now to
ay away for future great occasions.
,Bunter Drum started collecting
WInes after World War II , when he
cam
Ca e to Washington. In 1958, he be-
C;e a, member of the Confrerie des
evahers du Tastevin, perhaps the
lllo t prestigious wine society in the
~O~ld-there are 29 chapters in the
nlted States. The Washington chapter
~~s founded in 1946 and Mr. Drum
im ves as the "Grand Senechal." At an
foportant gourmet dinner recently,
C~s gras was served with Taittinger
l'i oa~pagne, Consomme matched with
I 19~;ed
pa , epe Sherry, river trout accom-
Cordon Charlemagne Latour
i
La and Veal Orloff was served with
graceach~ 1969. The cheese course was
Les ~ With ~he great Nuits St. Georges
We f aucralns 1969. All these wines
Ot~e rom the private cellar of the club!
'IN arren B
er members of the society include
David Ll urger, George Renchard,
BOYd Kreeger, and Leo Daly.
Fren~~t~r Dru~ primarily collects
urgUndles like his favorite La

18. The time-honored tradition of decanting a fine wine is performed by Dr. Stanley Perl in his
wine cellar, He is decanting a 1962 La Mission Haut Brion (a Graves Bordeaux),
191 6
Tache (Romanee Conti) 1964 or 1968, of great French wines-he holds a, his
His wine cellar is in a closet in the and 1934 Chateau Gruaud Larose l~ea1J
basement-not specially cooled, but cellar. Other favorites are Ch1a for
stable and accessible. He enjoys serving Haut Brion and Cos d'Estorn ne '
the American Schramsberg Champagne
for special festivities. To Drum, good
wine means the pleasure of sharing with A Basic Wine Cellar l
friends. "It also preserves a way of
eating and drinking which is perhaps White Wines
disappearing." Fine wines enhance 3 California Chardonnays dies
special occasions, and they are meant to 3 French Macons or White Burg un
be enjoyed. Other favorite Burgundies (Poilly Fuisse) 'net!
3 German (I Mosel; I Rhine Kabl
include Meursault and Chassagne
or Spatlese)
Montrachet. Drum is also looking at 2 Italian (Vernaccia)
Italian wines and Yugoslavian wines 2 Loires (Muscadet, Vouvray)
for daily drinking and is very enthu-
Red Wines
siastic about California wines.
Drum suggests that the wine enthu- 6 Italian Chianti, Barolos, Barbera, I
($3-$13)
siast save and store special bottles for as Spanish-Rioja-older '70s
long as possible in the optimum condi- ($3-$7.50)
tions of little vibration and darkness.
"Everything is usually drunk too Californian
6 Cabernets-3 for now ( '76 WilloW
, ng
l
young," he says and suggests one try
Creek, Souverein); 3 for cellart
less expensive choices. "But I'll buy
('76 Sterling' '77 Dry Creek)
Burgundies as long as I can afford 2 Zmfandels (Sutter H orne, Ridge)
, '
them," he adds. 2 Petite Sirah (Pedrizitti,
To an Italian, food and wine are as '77 Concannon)
natural as the sun. Guilio Cantoni grew 2 Gamays (Mondavi)
up in Milan, but has made his home in
French 't
Bethesda for many years. As an expert '75 petl e
16 Bordeaux-3 for now ( 6
at NIH he undoubtedly knows the
I
chateaux); 13 for later ('75, '7
healthful aspects of wine, and he has Classifieds) e'
collected 1,500-2,000 bottles in his 2 Rhones (Chateau Neuf du Pap ,
cellar. He keeps his wines horizontally Cote du Rhone) d BeaUne)
in clay canisters not specially cooled. 2 Beaujolais ('78, '79 Cot~ '~)
He has been collecting since 1954 and 8 Burgundy ('76 Cote de Ul
has never lost a bottle. Guilio is a lover
IS/October 1980/Dossier

19. OF BETHESDA
S1>ortowne
Jtdinar y d' k'mg, a Ch"lantl Cl asslco
r n' nn .
~~s lanco de Ie' Allegra is perfect, he
"....they are such values.
nEventhoughmywinesarenotcooled,
yav e never lost a bottle. At the worst,
great wines will mature in 40 years
Itead of 30," he adds. CUDDLE UP
tv ery month since 1961, Guilio and
lt1~ther friends have a special dinner Fabulous hooded fun
t SPouses-they are served the very fur. Utmost in warmth
~ there is from the great Italian and style. Beige with
I{Olos to the great French Chateaux- dark shading.
~t Chateau Lafite and Chateau
~er ~961. Sizes 6-20
iidlashIngton is fabulous for someone Price $260.
~ithY collecting fine wines, he says.
~ great competitive wine stores such Hours: Mon - Sat 9:30 A.M. - 6 P.M.
~d acArthur, A & A, Apex, Central
° WOodley, there are a great number
8300 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland
654-5146 654-5002
,,~POrtunities for wine tastings.
s t.art with a small number of bot-
~;-If You like a few, put them away.
in experiment." But if you like some-
ov}n.that's expensive-buy it to lay Fr nch cui inc from no n
~h till midnight.
SYe Great Italian Barolos may take For lunch, dinn r or late
ha;ar s to reach perfection, and one's upper call 342-0810 for
ge ces of finding the great 1964 vin- re ervations. omplimenrary
an are slim indeed. The market valet parking available.
it ges .rapidly. Guilio notes that even
eop~ Wines are better with cellaring;
em e shouldn't be afraid to store French cuisine.
i~:~~le~ Perl, a radiologist, freelyad- From midi to minuit.
Ons. Wine be!ng one of ~is .great yas-
t h·Cheap wmes were his first wmes,
IS taste and expertise grew. He 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, 'II Georgetown
Dossier/October /980//9

20. started collecting in bulk ten years ago
and has built a marvelous, auto-cooled
wine cellar in his basement in George-
town, filled with favorites like 1945
Mouton Rothschild, 1947 Cheval
Blanc, and Chateau Petrus 1975.
"Wine is an interesting reflection of
my life. It grows, changes, and hopeful-
ly matures. And you can look at it in an
analytical way-you taste it as it
changes," he says.
Stanley's favorite region is the St.
Julien in Bordeaux. He realizes a per-
son just collecting now has high prices
against him for the really exceptional
bottles-he himself feels he started ten
years too late.
Stanley advises the wine buff to buy
wines that are drinkable and try vertical
tastings ("a '64 and a '70 in the same , 'liar thOI
vintage"). It is essential to record one's The Cantonis check a vintage In the" ce 'e"
has clay-canister-enclosed protectIon ji0 r wm .'
,
experiences in the wine and food
choices after sampling. Wine books
and helpful wine purveyors abound for Elliot Staren of MacArthur Iq f t
L' uo fS
more assistance. The Perls are collec- recommends the 1975 and 1976 2~~O
ting Italian wines now, for high quality growths-wines that will live for ktO f
and low prices. 30 years. A 1976 Bernkastel er DOl tiS
People knowledgeable in wine are would be a nice addition for mar ve 0
quick to discover favorites that they sipping before a light dinner.. Rie s'
share with friends. Minister Pierre Col- The late harvest Johanmsb~rg I as
mant, the commercial counselor at the lings of California are exceptlOnad'vi
French Embassy, has a great love of are the 1974 Cabernets of Monesa to'
,
Chateau Talbot-as old as he can get it. Sterling and Mayacamus-~m note
He'll serve it at home for dinners with treasure in 10 to 20 years. Elhot eJ1'
Moet et Chandon Champagne for aper- that recent Burgundies are v~rY eX~wef
itifs, and often order Talbot when he is sive and do not have the staymg P talk'
entertaining guests in restaurants. Jac- of older vintages-unless yOU a: e of
ques de Larosiere, head of the Interna- ing about the Romanee Conti wme~ios.
tional Monetary Fund, enjoys serving the best Montrachets and ~haf!lbertheif
Chateau Beycheville 1964 at his dinner American wines are commg IntoYio e'
parties; he acquired it and others during own now. Staren gives Meredyth 'J11'
. ks fof I
his current post. yards' Seyval Blanc high mar
Experts in town are ready to assist mediate drinking enjoyment. still
you with the special bottles for cellar. Douglas Jones at Ace Beverages he
The president of Les Amis du Vin, Ron appreciates the older vintages t~a~ tiP
Fonte, notes that Rhone wines, like and Harry Siegal can manage t~ ~c tl erJ1
Chateau Neuf du Pape and Cote Rotie, for their customers. Chateau d . IqW ioe
and Spanish Reservas, are reasonable will always be a lusciousl~ specla The~
now and of high quality. German wines to match desserts or fOls gras. II [Of
have escalated 80 percent since 1970, 71 recommend Chateau Coutet as we of
th
percent due to inflation. But the 1975 a sweet Sauterne at alm~st ~ te~ouil'
and 76 German wines are excellent and the price. White BurgundieS hke od
. Cru a
better buys for quality than later vin- Iy Fuisse, Chablis Premier laid
tages. Chassagne Montrachet can be '[jed
For real cellaring, the French down for five years. The 1975 c1as~loWll
y
Bordeaux and Italian Barolos are the Bordeaux are wonderful to la p ' ho ll
longest "livers." The 1977 Vintage for 10 to 20 years-ChateaU h~teall
Port will be a bottle of the century to Lalande , Chateau Montrose, Can be
layaway. Buy a selection of red and Petrus-some petite chateaUX ageS
white California and French petite drunk earher. May fl owe r Bever
. wjOeS
chateaux to lay down for a few years. has a selection of rare German 19005.
designer hancbags
Almost any bottle, even jug wines, and old Madeiras from the early t I de
&
benefits from aging. A spectacular 1900 sweet Mosca ecia l
4417-19 jahn marr drive • annandale, virginia Many wine purveyors will suggest Setubel is available for JP;LOf{
354-2110 apen man-sat 10:00-5:30 special wines to hold and layaway. occasions. _BETTE A
20/0ctober J980/Doss;er

22. Design For Living
THE COUNTRY HOUSE THE HERBERT H%TS BUILT
hen Herbert and Gloria Haft various terraces, an Olympic size swim-
W lived in Chevy Chase and in
Kalorama Square they missed
the wide-open green spaces. Being a man
ming pool, an exquisitely kept tennis
court, a vegetable garden and other
suburban status symbols. It is also a
of action, the founder and president of decorator's dream.
Dart Drug' 'moonlights," as he puts it, as From the very grand 32-foot high
a builder of shopping centers, apartment foyer to the elegant twin living rooms
complexes and warehouses. He also has measuring a comfortable 32 feet, every-
an interest in automotive supplies. Their thing was designed to accommodate
son Robert is founder and president of any number of people with the greatest
Crown Books, and recently announced of ease. You could have a party with
the acquisition of 14 more stores in L.A. 250 intimate friends in these well pro-
Herbert bought 16 beautiful acres portioned rooms, all of them in under- h' h ceilings, is
Above: The foyer, with its 32-foot Ig bl floor
way out in Potomac and built the house stated tones of beige, gray and other all space and light. The beige-hued m.ar e The
of his dreams. Actually, the spacious
white brick Normandy style country
house is a mansion with 3 kitchens, 11
neutrals, and still not feel crowded. The
traffic flow-in and out of the living
rooms, dining rooms and terraces-is
in the entrance is graced with a Tabf/Z rug·
tapestry wall hanging was made ~o. order :s is
China. Below: One of the twin IIVI~g rOO h'c air
dominated bv Yankel Ginzburg's blomorp I
bathrooms, a gracious copper roof worked out to perfection. On the other " custom-
stractions. The matching couches, the dinated
(equipped with a 75 year guarantee), (Continued on Page 54) made Edward Fields rugs are color coo,.,
and accentuated with ruby red pillows.
2UOctober 1980/Dossier

23. PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN WHITMAN
FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS BY ANGELO BONITA CUSTOM FLORAL DECORATORS, INC -BETHESDA
Left: One of the favorite spots in the living room is the elegant backgammon table made out
of suede with its two art deco chairs. The target behind it is a symbol of Dart Drug and was
designed by Herbert HqJt himself. Below: In the upstairs sitting room next to their art deco
bedroom, the HqJts splendid collection of tableweights find a suitable setting. An oriental
theme is repeated on the silk upholstered couches, draperies and all floral arrangement
throughout the bedroom suite.
8eloll' W;
'nOSIt ~rm par?uet floorsunderline a quiet at-
'no Ii. ere m the dmmg room seating 24. The
gnijicent d' . table of old black walnut is
laid mmg
(ftnp~:t.for a buffet dinner. The Chinese screens,
4Ph Jars, hand-blocked fabric on the
Ifndo:~ere~ dining chairs and floral centerpiece
Oriental touch to a contemporary selling.
Dossier/October /980/13

24. Pres rving the Status Symbol
By Kathleen Burns

25. Aging fur coats that have been hiber-
nating in dark, dank clo ets are now be-
ing rejuvenated into more contempo-
rary styles, thanks to orne innovative
furriers.
Unlike a passe suit or dress that may
be handed down or given to Goodwill,
you don't tend to give away a fur even
if it's outdated. Instead, it is relegated
to a closet or cold storage vault, where
it hangs in isolation, season after sea-
son, while the owner fantasizes that
someday that style will return.
A check with a few of the furriers in
town elicited some useful tips on what
to do if you're down to your last fur
and want to update it.
Garfinckel's 628-7730
Shifting hemlines have rendered
some coats useless. Various jacket
lengths, collars and sleeves that are no
longer popular, notes Bob McGrath, fur
department manager for Garfinckel's.
To salvage furs that still have some
wearability, Garfinckel's is designing
jackets using leather, suede and ultra-
suede as well as knitted fabrics for
sleeves, collars and coat fronts. Such
renovations run from $700 to $2,000,
depending on how many usable pelts
were in the older coat.
McGrath said the response to an ad
the company ran last spring was "phe-
nomenal!" People came to the store
clutching the flyer and their old capes
and stoles. McGrath cautions that
restyling isn't always the answer since.
high labor costs may not justify
renovating too old a fur. But the com-
pany thus far this season has done more
general restyling than they have since
Garfinckel's opened its fur studios.
"We've got quite a reputation in this At left, opposite page, natural heather
area for doing miracles and we do lots Lunaraine mink by Christian Dior, at Garfin-
of them," he said. ckel's. The Norwegian blue fox from Wood-
ward & Lothrop, above. --
I. Magnin 468-2900
At I. Magnin, fur manager Stephen A t left on facing page, the woman in his life
can't make a snap decision on a matter as im-
Sanders says the store supports remod- portant as choosing a fur. And so our good-
eling and recycling furs, but only if the natured male stands by with a natural Glacial
finished product warrant the invest- fox coat by Yves St. Laurent from Saks-Jandel
ment. Sanders said they prefer to work on one arm and an Asiatic racoon coat from
with furs such as minks that are no Garfinckel's on the other. On the limousine,
left to right, are a grey cross mink cape and a
more than seven years old. Fitch jacket both from Mouratidis. A natural
Their forte is repairs instead of Lunaraine mink muff and hat from Saks-
remodeling, and they have no charge Jandel await milady's approval. Chauffeurs
for the service. They also boast of their came by limousine from Dav-el Livery to carry
gift boxes from Saks-Jandel, Woodward &
returns policy. Lothrop, Rosendorf-Evans, Miller's Fur, I.
"We take back anything. We want Magnin, Saks Fifth A ve., and Neiman-Marcus.
our customer to be happy," Sanders The selection is so hard - maybe she can talk
said. him into two furs?
To enhance the aura of love at first
sight, I. Magnin's has skylights for
natural light on furs, serves cocktails to
customers and favors a casual Califor-
Dossier/October 1980115

26. nia atmosphere so the customef i
neither hurried nor harried.
Unlike some department slOf~
ntO
which lease the fur operation, I. Mag
White mink coat at Mouratidis, pictured maintains its own fur factory in ~o
below. Francisco and has fur salons in 18 of III
22 stores. 'e
Nurturing their elite image is a prt'y
e
range from $450 to $135,000. 'fh r
don't encourage trade-ins, as so~e 03
their competitors do. Designers ft~d .
welcome niche here with attractiOn
such as Berger Christiansen of ~e~'
mark, Chloe, Karl Lagerfeld, Valentin,
St. Laurent and Pat Iauto.
Saks-Jandel 65Z-2250r
' ne
Saks-Jandel also stresses de,slg to
wear for its customer, according p
Peter Marx. The Saks-Jandel line'~r,
features Halston, St. Laurent, oeen'
frey Beene, Sorbara, Chloe and Val
tino. 3
"At this point, designers have beeniO
major influence in the last six yeaf~ I'
most of the fur houses in New yor ~I'
Marx said. He termed the designer C 9
lections "an added plus, without
doubt" in providing fresh insi.g~t ~
compared to "little old furriers h.ld 1 r
'l:
away in back rooms turning out s1111
/ styles year after year." rn
Taking up the cause of the for°ci'
White Russian lynx bellies coat at left, by male who wants to make the right dean
Grosvenor. Below, left to right, natural brown sion when buying a fur for the wO~he
Swakara blouson with wheat-dyed inserts, and in his life, Marx recommended that ee
wheat-dyed mink blouson with rust-dyed mink
inserts, both by Jerry Sorbara, all at Saks- man review a woman's lifestyle to/be
Jandel. where and when a fur coat wo ul fof
worn. Some are for skiing, some, 0'
shopping and some strictly for fash10'1
s0
able evenings. If the woman dO,e jt
want it, Marx requests that she bfll1~ld
back and find something she WO
really prefer. ~ ,
To avoid making mistakes, the Saus'
C
Jandel spokesman stressed that the 0-
tomer seek a furrier with the same CO th
fidence he would a jeweler since bO
are "blind" items.
Mouratidis 338-2i~
One of the most common mista'rn'
in buying a fur coat is getting an ;h e
proper fit. And not only do th
shoulders, back, arms, neck and leng jO
have to fit, the overall coat must beef'
proportion so the owner is not o~a
whelmed by it, counsels Helen Nou heir
of Mouratidis in Georgetown. ~ to
coats, which range from $1,50 'dj
$50,000, are all sold for fit. MOura~~~1
t
also carries men's styles, with m 0 0
cco
coyote, calf skin, nutria and ra at
most popular. Men's furs start
$1,800. 56}
(Continued on page
16/0ctober 1980/Dossier

27. •
A Norwegian blue fox jacket from Le Parisien,
at left. Above, mahogany mink from Miller's
Furs. Below, pecan-dY~d fox by Dior from
Garfinckel's.
Dossier/October 1980117

28. the!
There must be twelve thousand of us, surly foreigners treat IS Britons decent- State Department informed me, ra laSl
give or take a few. No one knows for ly, or else. No one kl ows for sure how gravely I fancied, that there w~re at Co'
sure just how many Washingtonians many of those there are around here. count 990 Britons in the District of J1d J
are allowed to hold those delightful This is no seamy Asian outpost where lumbia, some 5560 in Maryland e 1
stiff navy blue passports that sport the all the Queen's subjects are earnestly 5487 in Virginia. Eleven thousand n ed
royal crest and have the copperplate in- advised to register their names and ad- hundred and thirty seven who b~the{a'r
scription on Page Two that begins: dresses with the local British Consul. to obey the American Immigrat~OnJ11e)
"Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Insurrection and civil alarm seem so to the letter-and a few more (like
Secretary of State for Foreign and unlikely in Washington that we are who forgot. aLI'
Commonwealth Affairs requests and reckoned well able to look after our- It is tempting to say that the th aO
requires ... " It goes on to demand that selves from the moment we arrive until sand dozen of us who live here h~ve to
the moment we leave. Only the State influence that is out of all proport~o; to
Simon Winchester has for eight years Department has a vague idea of our our numbers. Think, lest you WIS 'gO
been the Washington Correspondentfor the numbers since they do, technically, re- challenge that, of the other fore~he
London Daily Mail. He has recently left quire foreigners to write their names on groups who live in and around JO'
that post and is now a roving columnist in small white cards that can be found in American capital. What about the r 0
the European area for the London Times. post offices each January. And the dians and the Pakistanis-I'll wage
l8/0ctober /980/Dossier

29. de rigueur in racier parts of town, it from the old country, models from the
cannot be said even by the most ardent Cotswolds and the Weald and the fringes
Francophile that this town has been in- of Dartmoor have all come and settled
fluenced-save, of course, for having down in the capital, making us some-
been designed and planned-by the what homesick, if truth be known. This
French. i an English city before anything else,
But the British-now there's a group an island of Engli hmen et in an
who helped turn what might just have American sea.
been a sleepy southern town into one of But who are the twelve thousand of
the more gracious of the world's pur- us who survive here, and what do we all
pose-built capitals. Compare Washing- do-save from making shop assistants
ton with, say, Canberra or Brasilia, laugh themselves silly at what they call
Islamabad or whatever new town is be- our "cute little accents?"
ing built to take over Juneau in Alaska. Well, as far as the State Department
All of those places are, or soon will knows, we do just about everything you
be, no doubt, sterile creations of some all do, except that a very large number
pompous architects, places that satisfy of us-almost the largest single bloc-
no one except for those who have to are members of the Corps of Diplo-
draw maps of the place. But Wash- mats. If anyone were to suggest the
ington, as well as being a cartographer's Briti h here like pecking orders as much
paradise, is also a decent, softly round- as they do back in England-where, as
ed sort of city in which to live. To some they say, everyone from a duke to a
small extent I am certain even the most dustman knows his precise position in
keenly nationalistic of you will agree Society-then we would have to admit
that has something to do with the pres- that the Diplomats come top of the pile
ence here, in fairly large numbers, of and are permitted first peck every time.
the British. There IS much interest in the charac-
The French and the post-Depression ter of the British Ambassador Extraor-
architects of your own country made dinary and Plenipotentiary who is sent
RANK F M N ALL RY Washington a city of monuments, of here by the reigning Monarch to convey
gUinea Or course. We helped add the human her Ministers' messages to her friend
thel11 th two there are many more of touches-the gardens and the rows of in the Government of our Former Col-
Washin ~n there are of us, and yet is townhouses and the Tudor mansions in ony. When I arrived here eight year
OUtpost g On becoming some western the suburbs, the solid-looking clubs ago we had Lord romer-a rich and
llr ooks BO f Bombay or Karachi? Do and the parks and the churches. The dignified man who knew a lot about
gUlab 'a rothers sell saris yet? Is there Washington Cathedral-does it remind horses and banking and precious little
Cafeter~ ;;un to be found at Sholl's one of Chartres, or the Jama Masjid in else-at the helm of the great flag hip
And ~'h Of COurse not! Old Delhi? No-its design comes British Emba y a he urged and
find P at of the French? I seem to straight from Exeter or Ely or Wells. ~ayed down Mas achusetts Avenue.
, arts ofK S
Citable Gall' treet swarming with ex- Though it may well be graniteers from His predecessor had gone off with the
afterno IC matrons on hot summer Vermont who sculpt the stones and wife of the BBC corre pondent or vice-
half ot~ and get the impression that fashion the gargoyles, the building's versa: it wa a delicious scandal which
cal11p OUt ontmartre has decided to grand design says, discreetly, "I am Lady Cromer attempted to outdo by
And Yet_O~ the banks of the Potomac. British and I will set my mark upon the going on the radio and sugge ting that
l11ake the; ough cuisine minceur may city I overlook." the life of an Asian (it was during a
tOn Sta ood Section of the Washing- That is what I mean when I suggest discussion of the Vietnam war, as I
b' r On
naches and P Oc~asion and though that Britain has done much to soften recall) was, on average, worth very little
erner and Les Cars are the cityscape of Washington: that ideas indeed. That cau ed a mighty flap.
Dossier/October 1980119

30. Sir Nicholas Henderson,
Views current British ambassador.
from a
Colonial
Outpost
It's the Middleburg Races, but Pamela Harriman was married to Ran-
couldn't it be a scene from Merrie dolph Churchill, the only son of
Olde England? Winston Churchill.
The Gerald Fords entertain the Queen and Prince
Philip at the White House during the Bicentennial.
I Jay and Iris
Former Ambassador Peter Cromer,
wife Margaret greet the Earl o,{bothOms.
who preceded the Peter Ran
1 ea ··J-aaY
Hermione Gingo 1a he;1 auction.
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3010ctober /980lDossier

31. --- The romer were ucceeded by the
Ram botham , a charming couple who
bu ied them elve in offering large din-
ner to anyone who had any influence
in permitting the oncorde jet to land
out at Dulle Airport. He clearly did hi
job prelly well, because oncorde wa
allowed in. The Ram botham were
ordered home on one of the fir t to fly,
becau e people back in "The Office"
suddenly got it into their head that ir
Peter wa ,a omeone in Downing
Street put it, "a tuffed hirt."
Then there were the thoroughly
modern Jay, who did their be t to
become intimate with the young ters in
the Carter White Hou e but didn't do
too terribly well and managed to divide
social Wa hington into Those Who Did
(like the Jays) and Those Who Didn't.
Peter Jay found the whole busines of
being Amba sador here a terrible
bore-though he loved just being here,
thinking Great Thoughts about the
Decline of the West. He and Margaret
remain here till, enjoying them elve
hugely, Liked by those who Did,
Loathed by tho e who Didn't.
A tiara-ed Lady Ramsbotham And the present incumbents are the
and Sir Peter wait to greet Queen Henderson , he a caricature of Engli h-
Elizabeth and Prince Philip in
July 1976. ness, she a Greek hoste who is aid to
set the be t table in Northwe t. Diplo-
matically, perhap they are not the
greatest of ucce es, though the e are
early days; ocially-though they have
failed to revive that quinte entially
English of ummer in titutions, the
Queen's Birthday Party (or the "QBP,"
as it is known from our Emba sy in
Reykjavik to our High Commi ion in
Dacca)-they ar reckoned a singular
triumph.
From Cromer to Henderson the
doyen and doyennes of the Briti h in
Wa hington are leader, both in ymbol
Zandra Rhodes and in legal fact, of the thou ands of us
showed her collection who live here. Sometimes we feel com-
at the Corcoran. forted in the knowledge we are repre-
Ambassador Elliot Richardson ented and protected by a figure of
en route to present his credentials terling credential. ometime we feel
to HRH, the Queen.
a slight twinge of unease, a though
somehow Prince s Margaret had be-
come Queen, and rock tar were heard
to be tuning their guitars in the Gun
Room at andringham.
British amba ad or head a pack of
some 600 diplomatic Other Rank who
work either in the magnificent Lutyen
man ion of the emba y re idence or in
the omewhat unimaginative-were I
not a patriot I might say, plain
ugly-glass and brick office block next
to it. No one is quite sure what all the e
men and women do, ave shop at ar-
finckels and pu h paper from one ide
Dos ierlOctober 1980131

32. te
of their desks to another. But they're a a
nice lot, and they decorate Chevy Chase t
parties with their uncommon wit and a
their interesting dental work. They are h
much in demand, from the lowliest t
Third Secretary in the passport office to t
the Minister himself in his great man- n
sion (sort of Tudoresque, the kind of
thing King Henry might have built had
he settled on Foxhall Road). You'll find
Britons propping up aspidistras and ex-
pressing quiet distaste at the tempera-
ture of the sherry from Middleburg to
St. Mary's City and all places in between.
But we are more than mere diplomats.
There is, of course, the distinguished
corps d'elite of the Washington journal- The British Embassy Players, made up of staff members, presents plays of English origin to Tessie
ists, men (I'd like to say there were American and British audiences. Stars of a recent "Old Time Music Hall" are Len PrOSser,
O'Shea, Mahri Miller and Producer, Doris Hall.
women, but there aren't any just now)
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who have been given by their papers around here, army chaps out proving Ports , which occupy all of their wa a ~
tra
and magazines the nicest jobs going in tanks over at Aberdeen and Air Force moments, and then they go on ex four
British journalism: the American beat. johnnies out at Dulles. There's a weekly gant Home Leaves ' for three or ar e
.
There once was a time a decade or so plane which the RAF flies into Dul- months at a time. Basically .bankle~ake
ago when the British journalistic pack les-it happens to land in England at a freeloaders, and they know It: they ku 1k
was the largest foreign contingent in village not ten miles from my home. A themselves too seriously, they s ne
town. Sad to say, we're now number pang of homesickness courses through about in the knowledge that everYI~fe,
two to the Japanese. The British are me when I see the Dulles departures knows they have far toO goo.d. a bY
down to no more than forty strong board on a Saturday afternoon show- and they have the added liablhty.- I
. all Ona
these days, and when we take tea with ing flights to London. virtue of working for an Intern re
the Ambassador every couple of mon- The "bankies," as the World Bank organization that somehow den aW re
them-of not being Bntls h a ny 01 t 0
.. 0 '
ths, we scarcely fill his drawing room. employees are derisively termed, tend
The Ambassador's little soirees are, in to include a lot of Brits-but once but well, worldly. They even neglf~c un t
fact, about the only time we see each again, for some curious reason, there's carry their British passport~ and a the
other en masse-the old bonds of siege no great social interchange between light blue laisser passers IOstead'their
mentality that kept us together have all them and the diplomatic and journalis- bounders. That's why they keep
but vanished with the years. Our editors tic community, which tends to move in distance, frankly. . that
like to suggest we meet as many lockstep for most of the tour here. The businessmen are lIke 'tis h
Americans as possible rather than stick- Those I've known have this infuriating too-the British Airways and Br~hO
ing to each other for security in this habit of taking themselves terribly seri- Leyland and British Paints people nd
strange foreign land, so we tend to ously-not a British trait at all, oh, tend to commute between McLean; u
cultivate the natives and have found, to no-and leaving for protracted Study Dulles and see little of the rest 0 al
aW J'
our delight, they are quite as friendly Tours of remote places in Deepest Af- because their work keeps them
and as harmless as we had read. rica, looking at textiles, or the effects of ' h troUnced
The Lincoln Mall Polo Club whIC. polO
Then there are the other Brits-mili- strange seven-legged bees on the local the British Combined Military ServICes othe'
tary people, naval types at the bases corn crop. Then they write huge Re- Team in Tidworth, England will hav~ ~~Olltll'
crack at them on their home field thiS