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...night, surprisingly enough, was glitter. In fact, the sole trace manifested itself in three heavily made-up girls clothed in black, one of whom my brother mistook for a distaff Lou Reed. Prior to the concert, I envisioned the normally lackluster interior of the Orpheum illuminated by a gilded aura; an aura emanating from the regal attire of an audience which was jaded by overtones of bi- and even transsexuality. I had almost hoped for a Cinderella-like transformation of the Orpheum into an aggrandizement of Reed's virtual birthplace, Max's Kansas City. But this chimeric figment vanished with...
...petty squabbles over minor policies, the personal pettiness by the rightfully outraged critics of the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board--these and other small dissensions helped to create an aura of controversy masking a conservative unanimity that will leave things just the way they...
...then the scientists had, in effect, been overruled by a bureaucratic device. FDA referred the question of cyclamate safety to the National Academy of Sciences and its working arm, the National Research Council. The prestige of these bodies gives a false aura of objectivity to their findings, says Verrett, because the NRC passes the buck to an advisory panel of "experts," most of whom are partly supported by the industry concerned or institutions that it finances. Such men, says Dr. Verrett, "are sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Hertz Rent-a-Scientists.' " (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...young men and women were known in the early years for the aura of scrubbed righteousness that they cast over the White House. They were Boy Scouts, 4-H-ers, teetotalers and nonsmokers, and some of them even shunned coffee. There remain to this day three separate prayer and Bible groups meeting in the White House...
...factor in Smith's decision may have been the effectiveness of ZANU terrorism, which has cast an aura of fear over the northern half of the country. On the highway just 40 miles north of Salisbury, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs recently encountered about 40 soldiers of the white-led, black-staffed Rhodesian African Rifles, gingerly searching the roadside bush. Behind them were three trucks with more soldiers and heavy weapons pointed outward in all directions. Griggs found Centenary, which is just 100 miles from Salisbury, a virtual armed camp, with soldiers always carrying their weapons at the ready...