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...Freshmen Adorn John Harvard Statute...
...Today, meanwhile, seems to spend most of its time pandering to America's nostalgia for yesterday's pop culture. Old movie clips and '60s hit tunes adorn the show wherever possible; a cover story on kids today (part of a five- part series on, no less, "living in the U.S.A.") was little more than an excuse to trot out scenes from Our Gang comedies. The show's animated graphics are state-of-the-art slick, and its four anchors state-of-the-art cute. But little stays on the screen long enough to register, and anything that does hardly seems...
...Helen Willans insists that since Dame Cicely was married for the first time eight years ago, "she has been a much happier person." She shows immense tenderness to her husband, bringing him to the hospice every day from their home nearby to paint in an upstairs studio. His pictures adorn nearly every wall in St. Christopher's, a blaze of colorful Crucifixions and abstracts that, she says, "are icons of life...
...manager patrols the lobby in a tuxedo; you half expect him to murmur, "Good evening, m'sieur," as you stroll by. Paintings of the High Tasteful school adorn the walls. Tea is being served -- 14 different blends -- on Rosenthal china. Perhaps madame would care for carrot cake, or a latte macchiato, or some nice kosher chocolates. Perhaps m'sieur and madame would also like to walk through the doors at the back of the lobby and catch Eddie Murphy Raw. For this is not the Stork Club or the Waldorf in a scene from some posh old Hollywood romance...
Holograms, those silvery 3-D images that adorn 500 million credit cards, will - soon make an appearance on another product: designer clothing. Garments made by Italy's Gruppo GFT for European designers Valentino, Emanuel Ungaro and Claude Montana will arrive in stores next spring bearing wafer-thin holograms that are glued to labels inside the clothing. The images, virtually impossible to copy, will certify to shoppers and retailers that the designer pieces are authentic. Anyone who tries to rip out the label and transfer it to a counterfeit designer garment will ruin the hologram. Clothing manufacturers hope the holograms will...