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Nancy Reagan set the Paris fashion world abuzz by appearing at the embassy dinner in black, rhinestone-studded knickers that peeped out from under a chiffon overskirt. The outfit was created by her favorite California designer, James Galanos...
...tape mixed bulletins from the Malouines (Falklands) with screening schedules for the night's new films. While two movies about political prisoners -Costa-Gavras' Missing and a Turkish production, Yilmaz Güney's Yol - were winning the festival's top prize, the restaurants were abuzz with the latest news from Sophia Loren's pink-walled prison in Caserta near Naples. Comedy, melodrama, illusion 24 times per second. That's the name of the game in Cannes, on and off the screen...
...proposal for tax reform has Washington abuzz. This plan would eliminate virtually all deductions and require everyone to pay the same flat tax rate, which would be no higher than 18%. Says Thomas Field, executive director of Tax Analysts, a Washington public interest group: "Interest in the idea is extremely high...
...time the assembly met for its first full working session, the capital was abuzz with rumors that the Christian Democrats and part of the P.C.N. had agreed to name Magaña provisional President. The right, it was assumed, would also agree to give the Christian Democrats some role in the assembly leadership. But when headlines proclaiming Magana's imminent election appeared in the afternoon paper, D'Aubuisson reportedly became furious and rearranged the list of candidates for the nine-man assembly directorate to exclude all Christian Democrats. When the vote took place, D'Aubuisson...
...Kremlinologists mulled over the implication of the pecking order, Moscow was abuzz with rumors that contenders for Brezhnev's job, weary of waiting for their leader's demise, were attempting to force his resignation by impugning members of his family. These stories were fueled by a series of scandals that have erupted in Moscow involving extortion and illicitly obtained diamonds. One centered on Boris Buriatov, a sometime singer known as Boris the Gypsy, who reportedly made himself conspicuous among the drably dressed denizens of Moscow by wearing a long sable coat, mink tie and diamond neckpin...