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...time of ready-to-wear, mass-produced clothes, the kimono of old Japan seems a fabled anachronism, like phoenix feathers. In the Edo period, for example, between the early 17th and middle 19th centuries, the art of designing and dyeing those full-sleeved, sashed garments reached its peak. Fortunes were expended on kimono by merchants and nobles, whose wives might, on formal occasions, wear 20 layers of shimmering robes. Since the 8th century they have been the stuff of poetry...
...second game, pinch-hitter Skip Deitz cracked a run-scoring single off Linehan in the seventh, breaking a 3-3 tie and sending Harvard to its 17th loss of the year...
...Glory of the Italian Renaissance. Often ignored Italian music from the 16th and 17th centuries...
...Council of Love. One of the actors in this play described it to me as "more of an orgy, sort of, than a play." This is its American premier, and as far as I can tell it deals with syphilis coming to the papal court in the 17th century. Or something. An allegory for heaven knows what, by Oscar Panizza. On the Loeb Mainstage, May 5-8 at 8 p.m. $3.00 weekdays and Sunday, $3.50 on Fridays and Saturdays...
...smoke-filled salon of a 17th century Roman palazzo, Italy's Christian Democrats last week battled for the future of their strife-torn, dispirited party. After five hours of tense debate, party leaders finally emerged with a plan of action, a marked change after the vacillation and near paralysis that have gripped the governo diparcheggio, or "parking-meter government," slapped together two months ago under Premier Aldo Moro. They would make one last-and probably foredoomed-try to cooperate with the other parties on emergency economic measures. If that failed, they would have to accept the inevitability...