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...accept the consequences of their acts? Who tells them that they have the enormous skill and administrative ability needed to run a university? Who teaches them that integrity is an important virtue, then gives them a philosophy that will cost them either their integrity or a bloody, broken bead? And then when all hell breaks loose, who rushes around wearing white armbands, trying to arrange a compromise for the monsters they themselves have created? It is no coincidence that those who initiated the force and violence were mainly students of philosophy, the humanities and social sciences...
Francis Baily, a 19th century English astronomer, first detected the bead-like effect during the eclipse...
...flair that strikes Italian designers like Emilio Pucci as quintessentially American. His trademark is an extravagantly Californian style: exuberant use of chiffon, bold sun colors such as orange and yellow, the revival of striking art nouveau prints. His magnificent "at home" wear this season includes $1,055 bead-encrusted beige-and-ginger-striped pajamas and a $1,700 gold-metallic chiffon burnoose with a jeweled...
With two other women, she founded Everywoman's Village in Van Nuys, Calif. It consists of a grassless half-acre, six bungalows, and a staff of 15 teachers who give courses ranging from ballet, oil painting, psychology and foreign languages to exotica like yoga and flowered bead making. The classes are limited to 15, the atmosphere is totally informal and there are no grades. The school's aim is to be a link between the housewife and the university. "Most housewives are afraid to resume their education in a formal classroom," says Lynn, "because they feel threatened...
Buried Ballroom. The hotel has no fewer than 32 shops and seven restaurants and bars, including the dimly lit Hong Kong Bar, with its bead-curtained alcoves, and the Spanish-style Granada Grill, with arched doorways and central fountain. In front, guests can wander onto an outdoor "cafe plaza," one floor below lobby level; in back, they can sip tall drinks beneath mustard-colored umbrellas in a Japanese-style formal garden crisscrossed with bridges, or take a dip in the swimming pool...