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...other evidence of his Chicago popularity might have the pharaoh twirling in his tomb: pyramid hair styles, Cleopatra eye makeup, scarab rings, mummy bead necklaces, wallpaper sporting Egyptian goddesses, Tut towel and pillow sets. The newest disco dance is a stimulating shuffle called the King Tut Strut. One women's shop has achieved the living end in Egyptian necrophilia: its main window features a mannequin wrapped in masking tape to look like a mummy...
...every researcher is so overwhelmingly optimistic about the project's long-range effects. Doug Kalish, one of the researchers, fears that the ground-breaking work may cause problems of enormous--maybe elephantine--proportions. "There is no limit to the size that we can make these beads. With a large enough bead, even an elephant can be trapped," Kalish warns. "The hazards that these beads may present to the community has yet to be determined...
...Minute Warning is a movie full of clocks, not people. It is hardly enough that the sniper has hidden himself in an inaccessible perch above the stadium Scoreboard. From there, armed with his Remington 742, he can draw a fine bead through his telescopic sight on any of the 92,000 assembled fans, among whom are the mayor of L.A., the Governor of California, the President of the U.S. (who is en route) and Merv Griffin (who opens the football game by delivering the national anthem as if it were a carton of half-and-half). Not even all this...
Though he says his designs come out of a "crucible of pain," Saint Laurent has an extraordinarily fertile and precise imagination. Working in Marrakech, seldom spending more than 15 minutes on a single drawing, he designed his latest collection so perfectly that not a bead or button had to be changed when he arrived at his Paris headquarters to inspect the finished array of 106 styles...
...park and talked. Rosa, who is about 45 years old and out of work, is stunningly beautiful except that her teeth are rotting. She gave Enrique and me plastic bead necklaces she had strung together and asked us when we were going to marry Chilean women...