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...lights blacken, and seconds later Marceau, dressed in his far less elaborate white costume, poses in readiness on the exact spot that the troubadour held. How does he make this miraculous switcheroo? The audience finds out at intermission, when the Marceau look-alike troubadour comes out to take a bow with his boss...
Murray said he was unexpectedly impressed with Harvard, where he spent the day touring the College, the Square, and such dubious tourist attractions as the Lampoon's Castle at 44 Bow St. "I was shocked," Murray said of Harvard people. "If someone said something funny, people would actually laugh...
...Gromyko's annoyance with Fedorenko went further than deep dislike for his personal style--long hair, flashy clothes, bow ties, all of which clashed with the strict, official appearance Gromyko thought should be standard for serious men. Gromyko also envied his status in the Academy of Sciences. Fedorenko, like Yakov Malik, who later replaced him as Ambassador, detested Gromyko. But unlike Malik, who was a lion with his subordinates and a mouse with Gromyko, Fedorenko did not fear the minister...
...teas, receptions. Such occasions require a deep well of small talk and unwavering poise. Last month, at a dinner in honor of Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi (chicken breast Sandeman, poached salmon, radicchio salad and glazed pear), Nancy Reagan sat dutifully on the visitor's left--and when Lusinchi's bow tie slid askew, she smiled, reached over, and refastened the clip-on without skipping a beat...
...some of the interactions between the sun and the earth. The release is part of a study of the magnetosphere, the powerful magnetic bubble that surrounds the earth; of the solar wind, the stream of supersonic particles that blows from the sun out to the planets; and of the bow-shock region, which lies between them. Aware of the comet's seasonal significance, NASA, one of the mission's main participants, has only too happily dubbed the performance the "Christmas comet." Sadly, the spectacle will be visible only to those living roughly west of St. Louis to Hawaii...